CVE-2022-4415 — A vulnerability was found in systemd

A vulnerability was found in systemd. This security flaw can cause a local information leak due to systemd-coredump not respecting the fs.suid_dumpable kernel setting.

01What is this vulnerability?

A vulnerability was found in systemd. This security flaw can cause a local information leak due to systemd-coredump not respecting the fs.suid_dumpable kernel setting.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / systemd	systemd >= 247

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-01-11T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-11-03T19:27:41.646Z

09References

• www.openwall.com — https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/21/3
• github.com — https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/b7641425659243c09473cd8fb3aef2c0d4a3eb…