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suddoers configuration for cscreen not restrictive enough

Type: advisorySources: OSV

A Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in the sudoers configuration in cscreen of openSUSE Factory allows any local users to gain the privileges of the tty and dialout groups and access and manipulate any running cscreen seesion. This issue affects: openSUSE Factory cscreen version 1.2-1.3 and prior versions.

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CVEs
CVE-2022-21946
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Updated in this feed
3 Nov 2026, 06:13 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

suddoers configuration for cscreen not restrictive enough

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Mar 2022, 10:05 UTC

A Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in the sudoers configuration in cscreen of openSUSE Factory allows any local users to gain the privileges of the tty and dialout groups and access and manipulate any running cscreen seesion. This issue affects: openSUSE Factory cscreen version 1.2-1.3 and prior versions.

osv:CVE-2022-21946
Complete source record
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