CVE-2022-29526

Exp

Go before 1.17.10 and 1.18.x before 1.18.2 has Incorrect Privilege Assignment. When called with a non-zero flags parameter, the Faccessat function could incorrectly report that a file is accessible.

Published: 2022-06-23 Last update: 2026-06-17 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2022-29526 is rated High Exploit Risk (65.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.59%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2022-29526

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2022-29526

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-19 2.08% 2.59% +0.52%
2 2026-06-15 0.18% 2.08% +1.90%
3 2025-11-21 — 0.18% —

Full EPSS history (22 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2022-29526

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.3 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 3.9 1.4 [email protected]
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2022-29526

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2022-29526

GHSA-p782-xgp4-8hr8 · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: go — golang.org/x/sys/unix has Incorrect privilege reporting in syscall

OS Trackers for CVE-2022-29526

vendor priority summary link
alpine medium CVE-2022-29526: 1 source package rows (docker); 8 state rows across 7 repos (3.17-community, 3.18-community, 3.19-community, 3.20-community, 3.21-community, 3.22-community, edge-community); fixed 8, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2022-29526
debian not yet assigned CVE-2022-29526 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (golang-1.15), 1 status rows across 1 suites (bullseye): open 1. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-29526
gentoo high CVE-2022-29526: 1 GLSA(s) (202208-02), 1 atom(s) (dev-lang/go); latest impact high. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2022-29526
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29526
suse medium CVE-2022-29526 severity moderate: SUSE including 38 source package names (1.17-12.3:go1.17-1.17.10-150000.1.34.1, 1.18-7.3:go1.18-1.18.2-150000.1.17.1, …), 116 product×package rows across 19 product lines (Container bci/golang, SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1, … (19 product lines)): Fixed 110, Known Not Affected 6. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-29526/
ubuntu medium CVE-2022-29526 medium priority: Ubuntu including 11 source packages (golang, golang-1.10, …), 146 status rows across 14 suites (bionic, focal, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 110, needs-triage 19, ignored 7, released 6, not-affected 4. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-29526

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2022-29526

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
golang go < 1.17.10 cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
golang go >= 1.18.0, < 1.18.2 cpe:2.3:a:golang:go:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 35 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 36 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp beegfs_csi_driver — cpe:2.3:a:netapp:beegfs_csi_driver:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2022-29526

URL Tags
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/52313 Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce Issue Tracking Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/Y5qrqw_lWdU Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Q6GE5EQGE4L2KRVGW4T75QVIYAXCLO5X/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/RQXU752ALW53OJAF5MG3WMR5CCZVLWW6/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Z55VUVGO7E5PJFXIOVAY373NZRHBNCI5/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZY2SLWOQR4ZURQ7UBRZ7JIX6H6F5JHJR/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-02 Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220729-0001/ Third Party Advisory
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