High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 26, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2022-21944
CVE-2022-21944
Description
A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the systemd service file for watchman of openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3, Factory allows local attackers to escalate to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 watchman versions prior to 4.9.0. openSUSE Factory watchman versions prior to 4.9.0-9.1.
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Affected products
6- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/watchman&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2015.3pkg:rpm/suse/watchman&distro=SUSE%20Package%20Hub%2015%20SP3
< 4.9.0-bp153.2.3.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9.0-bp153.2.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 4.9.0-bp153.2.3.1
- openSUSE/Factoryv5Range: watchman
- openSUSE/openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3v5Range: watchman
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References
1- bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
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