CVE-2022-22942

2022-01-2800:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS3

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

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

AI Score

8.1

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

31.3%

JSON

The vmwgfx driver contains a local privilege escalation vulnerability that
allows unprivileged users to gain access to files opened by other processes
on the system through a dangling ‘file’ pointer.

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu18.04noarchlinux< 4.15.0-169.177UNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchlinux< 5.4.0-100.113UNKNOWN
ubuntu21.10noarchlinux< 5.13.0-30.33UNKNOWN
ubuntu18.04noarchlinux-aws< 4.15.0-1121.129UNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchlinux-aws< 5.4.0-1066.69UNKNOWN
ubuntu21.10noarchlinux-aws< 5.13.0-1014.15UNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchlinux-aws-5.13< 5.13.0-1014.15~20.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu18.04noarchlinux-aws-5.4< 5.4.0-1066.69~18.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchlinux-aws-hwe< 4.15.0-1120.128~16.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchlinux-azure< 5.4.0-1070.73UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	linux	< 4.15.0-169.177	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	linux	< 5.4.0-100.113	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	21.10	noarch	linux	< 5.13.0-30.33	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	linux-aws	< 4.15.0-1121.129	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	linux-aws	< 5.4.0-1066.69	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	21.10	noarch	linux-aws	< 5.13.0-1014.15	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	linux-aws-5.13	< 5.13.0-1014.15~20.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	linux-aws-5.4	< 5.4.0-1066.69~18.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	16.04	noarch	linux-aws-hwe	< 4.15.0-1120.128~16.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	linux-azure	< 5.4.0-1070.73	UNKNOWN