CVE-2022-31253: Opensuse OPENLDAP2

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

A Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in openldap2 of openSUSE Factory allows local attackers with control of the ldap user or group to change ownership of arbitrary directory entries to this user/group, leading to escalation to root. This issue affects: openSUSE Factory openldap2 versions prior to 2.6.3-404.1.

Affected products

• Opensuse OPENLDAP2: before 2.6.3-404.1 (fixed in 2.6.3-404.1)

Published 2022-11-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.