CVE-2022-33912 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Checkmk Debian packages (versions 1.6 through 2.2.0i1) where maintainer scripts are incorrectly owned by a user with ID 1001. This allows an attacker with local access to modify these scripts, which are then executed with root privileges. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH) due to its low attack complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:checkmk:checkmk:1.6.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:checkmk:checkmk:1.6.0:b1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:checkmk:checkmk:1.6.0:b10:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:checkmk:checkmk:1.6.0:b12:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:checkmk:checkmk:1.6.0:b3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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