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CVE-2022-3560

pesign: Local privilege escalation on pesign systemd service

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.8

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 1, 2023

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in pesign. The pesign package provides a systemd service used to start the pesign daemon. This service unit runs a script to set ACLs for /etc/pki/pesign and /run/pesign directories to grant access privileges to users in the 'pesign' group. However, the script doesn't check for symbolic links. This could allow an attacker to gain access to privileged files and directories via a path traversal attack.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')