CVE-2022-27819: Waycrate Swhkd

Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

SWHKD 1.1.5 allows unsafe parsing via the -c option. An information leak might occur but there is a simple denial of service (memory exhaustion) upon an attempt to parse a large or infinite file (such as a block or character device).

Affected products

• Waycrate Swhkd: version 1.1.5 only

Published 2022-04-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.