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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.1

CVE-2022-26530 json

swaylock before 1.6 allows attackers to trigger a crash and achieve unlocked access to a Wayland compositor.

published 2022-04-03 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-31087

cvss
9.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

swaylock before 1.6 allows attackers to trigger a crash and achieve unlocked access to a Wayland compositor.

Patch / fix

  • swaywm swaylock 1.6
  • swaylock Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-26530

  • swaylock Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +6 more 1.6-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-26530

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org 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-2022-26530 updated

swaylock: lock screen bypasses

  • 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

1.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

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.