An issue was discovered in Qualys Cloud Agent 4.8.0-49. It executes programs at various full pathnames without first making ownership and permission checks (e.g., to help ensure that a program was installed by root) and without integrity checks (e.g., a checksum comparison against known legitimate programs). Also, the vendor recommendation is to install this agent software with root privileges. Thus, privilege escalation is possible on systems where any of these pathnames is controlled by a non-root user. An example is /opt/firebird/bin/isql, where the /opt/firebird directory is often owned by the firebird user.
Published 2022-08-18 13:15:08
Updated 2022-09-15 16:49:18
Source MITRE
View at NVD,   CVE.org
Vulnerability category: Gain privilege

Products affected by CVE-2022-29549

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2022-29549

0.05%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 13 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2022-29549

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
7.3
HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
1.3
5.9
NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2022-29549

  • The product does not validate or incorrectly validates the integrity check values or "checksums" of a message. This may prevent it from detecting if the data has been modified or corrupted in transmission.
    Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

References for CVE-2022-29549

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