CVE-2022-37706

HIGHNVD 7.87.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 7.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2022-12-25. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Weaponized
7.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit code is available (Metasploit, other public proof-of-concept code)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 5.7%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: Metasploit · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

enlightenment_sys in Enlightenment before 0.25.4 allows local users to gain privileges because it is setuid root, and the system library function mishandles pathnames that begin with a /dev/.. substring.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
7.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
61
EG Risk 61/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity78% × 45%
The EG Score, 7.8 of 10.
Exploitation65% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 2 (Weaponized): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
5.7%
EPSS %ILE
92nd
KEV
Not listed

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

December 25, 2022

Last Modified

April 14, 2025

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 3, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

GitHub - MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37706-LPE-exploit: A reliable exploit + write-up to elevate privileges to root. (Tested on Ubuntu 22.04) · GitHub

https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37706-LPE-exploit
Web page

Sign In - Enlightenment GIT

https://git.enlightenment.org/enlightenment/enlightenment/commit/cc7faeccf77fef8b0ae70e312a21e4cde087e141
Web page

Sign In - Enlightenment GIT

https://git.enlightenment.org/enlightenment/enlightenment/commit/cae78cbb169f237862faef123e4abaf63a1f5064

Affected Packages

(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:10(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
e170.22.4-2
  • every version up to 0.22.4-2+deb10u1: fixed in 0.22.4-2+deb10u1
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
e170.24.2-8
  • every version up to 0.24.2-8+deb11u1: fixed in 0.24.2-8+deb11u1
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
e17—
  • every version up to 0.25.4-1: fixed in 0.25.4-1
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
e17—
  • every version up to 0.25.4-1: fixed in 0.25.4-1
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
e17—
  • every version up to 0.25.4-1: fixed in 0.25.4-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

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Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 88 of 176 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 12 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 88 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

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Publicly available exploits

(4 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry, 2 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Metasploitexploit/linux/local/ubuntu_enlightenment_mount_priv_esc✓ verified
    Published Oct 4, 2022

    Ubuntu Enlightenment Mount Priv Esc

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-51180
    Published Apr 1, 2023

    Enlightenment v0.25.3 - Privilege escalation

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCECU-10525611-Xander/CVE-2022-37706
    Published Sep 18, 2022

    All Credit to MaherAzzouzi (https://github.com/MaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37706-LPE-exploit). This is a copy of the exploit for CTFs

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCMaherAzzouzi/CVE-2022-37706-LPE-exploit
    Published Sep 12, 2022

    A reliable exploit + write-up to elevate privileges to root. (Tested on Ubuntu 22.04)

    Open source ↗

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2022-37706?
CVE-2022-37706 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on December 25, 2022. enlightenment_sys in Enlightenment before 0.25.4 allows local users to gain privileges because it is setuid root, and the system library function mishandles pathnames that begin with a /dev/.. substring.
When was the CVE record for CVE-2022-37706 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2022-37706 was published on December 25, 2022. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 14, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2022-37706 actively exploited?
CVE-2022-37706 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: a Metasploit module exists for it. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (92nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-37706?
CVE-2022-37706 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2022-37706?
A fix for CVE-2022-37706 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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