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CVE-2022-1117

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-1117 is a high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 8.4) in fapolicyd that stems from an incorrect assumption about glibc's runtime linker naming. This flaw can cause fapolicyd to fail in detecting and preventing the execution of unauthorized applications launched by the runtime linker. The vulnerability has a local attack vector with low complexity, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fapolicyd_project:fapolicyd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.4HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.5
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
22.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0030 is in the 20th percentile among its peer group of 3,237 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19486-16823Fixed in: 1.3.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 fapolicyd 1.3.2-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 1.3.2-1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: fapolicyd-0:1.1-6.el8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update SupportFixed in: fapolicyd-0:1.0.2-6.el8_4.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2022-Aug/CVE-2022-1117Important

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.

Aug 9, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-1117Moderate

fapolicyd: fapolicyd wrongly prepares ld.so path

May 2, 2022

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2022-1117
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Permissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / linux-application-whitelisting/fapolicyd/commit/38a942613f93824c53164730b2b7a2f75b8cd263
PatchThird Party Advisory