PT-2022-20643 · Sendmail+1 · Sendmail+1

Filippo Bonazzi · Published 2022-10-26 · Updated 2022-11-08 · CVE-2022-31256

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions openSUSE Factory sendmail versions prior to 8.17.1-1.1

Description A local attacker can exploit an Improper Link Resolution Before File Access issue, also known as 'Link Following', in a script used by the sendmail systemd service to escalate privileges from user mail to root.

Recommendations For openSUSE Factory sendmail versions prior to 8.17.1-1.1, update to version 8.17.1-1.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-31256

OPENSUSE-SU-2022_3899-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3898-1

SUSE-SU-2022:3899-1

SUSE-SU-2022_3898-1

SUSE-SU-2022_3899-1

Affected Products

Suse

Sendmail

References · 11

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31256 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204696 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3899-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2022:3898-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-31256 · Vendor Advisory
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-31256 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1202937 · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/52089 · Telegram Post
• https://suse.com/support/update/announcement/2022/suse-su-20223898-1 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1204696 · Note
• https://suse.com/support/update/announcement/2022/suse-su-20223899-1 · Note