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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2022-26563 json

An issue was discovered in Tildeslash Monit before 5.31.0, allows remote attackers to gain escilated privlidges due to improper PAM-authori…

published 2023-07-18 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-31119

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Tildeslash Monit before 5.31.0, allows remote attackers to gain escilated privlidges due to improper PAM-authorization.

Patch / fix

  • tildeslash monit 5.31.0
  • monit Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1:5.32.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-26563

  • monit Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1:5.6-2ubuntu0.1+esm3
  • monit Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1:5.16-2ubuntu0.2+esm2
  • monit Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS 1:5.25.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
  • monit Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS 1:5.26.0-4ubuntu0.1~esm1
  • monit Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS 1:5.31.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-26563

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-2022-26563 updated cvss 8.8

monit: privilege escalation due to improper PAM-authorization

  • 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

Weakness

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.