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CVE-2022-27819

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-27819 describes an unsafe parsing vulnerability in SWHKD version 1.1.5, specifically affecting the waycrate swhkd product. This vulnerability, rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.3), allows for a potential information leak and a simple denial of service due to memory exhaustion when attempting to parse large or infinite files via the -c option. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there any public exploit codes or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:waycrate:swhkd:1.1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
53.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0082 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 167 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 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 (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
rustpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: Simple-Wayland-HotKey-DaemonFixed in: 1.2.0

Vendor Advisories (1)

rustGHSA-h6xw-mghq-7523medium

Unsafe parsing in SWHKD

Apr 8, 2022

References

github.com / waycrate/swhkd/commit/b4e6dc76f4845ab03104187a42ac6d1bbc1e0021
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / waycrate/swhkd/releases
Release Notes
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2022/04/14/1
PatchThird Party Advisory