CVE-2022-21944: Opensuse Factory Watchman

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following vulnerability in the systemd service file for watchman of openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3, Factory allows local attackers to escalate to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP3 watchman versions prior to 4.9.0. openSUSE Factory watchman versions prior to 4.9.0-9.1.

Affected products

• Opensuse Factory Watchman: up to and including 4.9.1

Published 2022-01-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.