Vulnerabilities > CVE-2022-1117 - Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties vulnerability in Fapolicyd Project Fapolicyd

047910
CVSS 8.4 - HIGH
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
fapolicyd-project
CWE-552

Summary

A vulnerability was found in fapolicyd. The vulnerability occurs due to an assumption on how glibc names the runtime linker, a build time regular expression may not correctly detect the runtime linker. The consequence is that the pattern detection for applications launched by the run time linker may fail to detect the pattern and allow execution.