CVE-2022-23132 (GCVE-0-2022-23132)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-13 15:50 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:45
VLAI
Title
Incorrect permissions of [/var/run/zabbix] forces dac_override
Summary
During Zabbix installation from RPM, DAC_OVERRIDE SELinux capability is in use to access PID files in [/var/run/zabbix] folder. In this case, Zabbix Proxy or Server processes can bypass file read, write and execute permissions check on the file system level
Severity
3.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Assigner
Zabbix CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 79/100 over 20 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Zabbix Proxy, Server Affected: 4.0.0 - 4.0.36
Affected: 5.0.0 – 5.0.18
Affected: 5.4.0 – 5.4.8
Unaffected: 5.0.19 , < 5.0.19* (custom)
Unaffected: 5.4.9 , < 5.4.9* (custom)
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Date Public
2021-12-01 00:00
Credits
Zabbix wants to thank Brian J. Murrell for reporting this issue to us
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    Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.