Security Advisory

CVE-2022-42917

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-09-13 00:00:00
Last updated 2026-09-14 18:15:19
Assigner mitre
CVSS score 6.7
State PUBLISHED

Description

In FRRouting FRR before 8.5, the service user (usually frr) can escalate its privileges to root by monitoring the configuration directory (/etc/frr) and replacing config files upon creation with, for example, symlinks to change the ownership of arbitrary files. This is a TOCTOU Race Condition caused by a combination of touch and chown.