CVE-2022-21944

7.8 highEPSS 0.3%

High (7.8) in opensuse factory watchman. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the systemd service file for watchman of openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3, Factory allows local attackers to escalate to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 watchman versions prior to 4.9.0. openSUSE Factory watchman versions prior to 4.9.0-9.1.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 21% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-59
Published: 2022-01-26
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

opensuse:factory_watchman

References

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194470
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194470

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