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CVE-2022-42917

CVSS 6.7 no coverage
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In FRRouting FRR before 8.5, the service user (usually frr) can escalate its privileges to root by monitoring the configuration directory (/etc/frr) and replacing config files upon creation with, for example, symlinks to change the ownership of arbitrary files. This is a TOCTOU Race Condition caused by a combination of touch and chown.

Detection rules

No detection found — yet
None of Sigma, Elastic, Splunk ESCU, YARA, Microsoft Sentinel, Snort, or Suricata currently has a rule referencing CVE-2022-42917.