CVE-2022-29800
A time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability was found in networkd-dispatcher. This flaw exists because there is a certain time between...
- Published
- Sep 21, 2022
- Updated
- May 28, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- fedora
- Evidence observed
- Aug 8, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 94.1%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
A time-of-check-time-of-use (TOCTOU) race condition vulnerability was found in networkd-dispatcher. This flaw exists because there is a certain time between the scripts being discovered and them being run. An attacker can abuse this vulnerability to replace scripts that networkd-dispatcher believes to be owned by root with ones that are not.
Sources
2NimbusPwn (CVE-2022-29799/29800) local privilege escalation PoC in C.
PoC for Nimbuspwn: Linux Privilege Escalation via Path Traversal and TOCTOU in networkd-dispatcher
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