In Eternal Terminal 6.2.1, etserver and etclient have predictable logfile names in /tmp.

published 2023-01-13 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-50966

cvss: 5.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.9%; EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 60%
public exploits: 0; none known

Patch / fix

distros 1 links 2

EternalTerminal openSUSE Tumbleweed 6.2.4-1.1
EternalTerminal Package Hub 15 SP4, openSUSE Leap 15.4 6.2.4-bp154.2.6.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12630-1 openSUSE-SU-2023:0041-1

github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal#556 pull request
github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal/issues/555 advisory

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-2022-48257 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 5.3

EternalTerminal: information exposure

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: yes
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-08-01)

Exploit prediction

0.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

github.com https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTerminal/pull/556 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CISA ADP	3.1	5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD	3.1	5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CNA	3.1	5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products

fedoraproject fedora
eternal_terminal_project eternal_terminal

Classification

Weakness

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

github.com /MisterTea/EternalTerminal/pull/556
exploit, patch, third-party-advisory
github.com /MisterTea/EternalTerminal/issues/555
issue-tracking, patch, third-party-advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/U6MO4FSKYNSAJVUXYP7LRY7ARUIGKBFL/
vendor-advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2RY6PKBU73I45L6YWNYCUK2XBEXEFX7L/
vendor-advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NYODHZECXYFC2BNODZPZXZAXOKGMCYAP/
vendor-advisory
openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2023/02/16/1
mailing-list
lists.fedoraproject.org /archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2RY6PKBU73I45L6YWNYCUK2XBEXEFX7L/

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-48257
NVD CVE-2022-48257

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.

Summary