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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-24949 json

A privilege escalation to root exists in Eternal Terminal prior to version 6.2.0.

published 2022-08-16 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-29702

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A privilege escalation to root exists in Eternal Terminal prior to version 6.2.0. This is due to the combination of a race condition, buffer overflow, and logic bug all in PipeSocketHandler::listen().

Patch / fix

  • Jason Gauci Eternal Terminal 6.2.0
  • EternalTerminal openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.2.1-2.1
  • EternalTerminal Package Hub 15 SP3, openSUSE Leap 15.3 6.2.1-bp153.2.3.1
  • EternalTerminal Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 6.2.1-bp154.2.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12269-1openSUSE-SU-2022:10187-1openSUSE-SU-2022:10185-1

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-2022-24949 updated cvss 7.5

eternalterminal: Root Privilege Escalation

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    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

Exploit prediction

1.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/metaredteam/external-disclosures/security/advisories/GHSA-hxg8-4r3q-p9rv referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • Jason Gauci Eternal Terminal

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

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.