🛡️ CVE-2022-23220
🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-306 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

USBView 2.1 before 2.2 allows some local users (e.g., ones logged in via SSH) to execute arbitrary code as root because certain Polkit settings (e.g., allow_any=yes) for pkexec disable the authentication requirement. Code execution can, for example, use the --gtk-module option. This affects Ubuntu, Debian, and Gentoo.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-306
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-01-21
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
usbview — 2.2

References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/22/1
Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/21/1
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/22/1
Exploit, Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/21/1

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