CVE-2022-1117

Severity: high (CVSS 8.4 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-08-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-552

Description

A vulnerability was found in fapolicyd. The vulnerability occurs due to an assumption on how glibc names the runtime linker, a build time regular expression may not correctly detect the runtime linker. The consequence is that the pattern detection for applications launched by the run time linker may fail to detect the pattern and allow execution.

Affected products

fapolicyd: before 1.1.2 — fixed in 1.1.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: fapolicyd 1.1.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1117
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066904
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2068171
https://github.com/linux-application-whitelisting/fapolicyd/commit/38a942613f93824c53164730b2b7a2f75b8cd263
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-1117
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2066904
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2068171
https://github.com/linux-application-whitelisting/fapolicyd/commit/38a942613f93824c53164730b2b7a2f75b8cd263

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