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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2022-1736 json

Ubuntu's configuration of gnome-control-center allowed Remote Desktop Sharing to be enabled by default.

published 2025-01-31 21 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-25017

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 55%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Ubuntu's configuration of gnome-control-center allowed Remote Desktop Sharing to be enabled by default.

Patch / fix

  • Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu's gnome-control-center 42.1.1-2ubuntu1
  • gnome-remote-desktop Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 42.1.1-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1736

  • gnome-control-center Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1:41.4-1ubuntu13.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1736

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-1736 updated cvss 4.3

gnome-control-center: GNOME Settings could allow unintended access to network services.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 gnome-control-center, gnome-control-center-filesystem Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 gnome-control-center, gnome-control-center-filesystem
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Canonical Ltd. Ubuntu's gnome-control-center

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.