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CVE-2022-29800

Published: Sep 21, 2022

Modified: May 28, 2025

PUBLISHED

Description

A time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability was found in networkd-dispatcher. This flaw exists because there is a certain time between the scripts being discovered and them being run. An attacker can abuse this vulnerability to replace scripts that networkd-dispatcher believes to be owned by root with ones that are not.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	networkd-dispatcher	affected `uknown`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/04/26/microsoft-finds-new-elevation-of-privilege-linux-vulnerability-nimbuspwn/

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