🛡️ CVE-2022-31256
🟠 CVSS 7.7 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-59 NVD
7.7
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following') vulnerability in a script called by the sendmail systemd service of openSUSE Factory allows local attackers to escalate from user mail to root. This issue affects: SUSE openSUSE Factory sendmail versions prior to 8.17.1-1.1.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-59
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-10-26
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
factory 8.17.1-1.1

References

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204696
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1204696

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