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CVE-2022-27819

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-04-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

SWHKD 1.1.5 allows unsafe parsing via the -c option. An information leak might occur but there is a simple denial of service (memory exhaustion) upon an attempt to parse a large or infinite file (such as a block or character device).

Affected products

• Waycrate Swhkd: 1.1.5

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/14/1
• https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/commit/b4e6dc76f4845ab03104187a42ac6d1bbc1e0021
• https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/releases
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/04/14/1
• https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/commit/b4e6dc76f4845ab03104187a42ac6d1bbc1e0021
• https://github.com/waycrate/swhkd/releases

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