{"id":"CVE-2011-2922","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2011-2922","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:50:03.533Z","title":"This can allow a local attacker to escalate privileges to root and use the \"GTK_MODULES\" environment variable to possibly execute arbitrary code.","description":"ktsuss versions 1.4 and prior spawns the GTK interface to run as root. This can allow a local attacker to escalate privileges to root and use the \"GTK_MODULES\" environment variable to possibly execute arbitrary code.","published":"2019-11-19T19:15:15.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:32:16.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["ktsuss project/ktsuss"],"epss":{"score":0.00684,"percentile":0.5229,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.68%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2922","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://lwn.net/Articles/477678/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/109154/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-201201-15.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/cve/CVE-2011-2922","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2922","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-LINUX-KTSUSS-174466","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49151","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2011-2922","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lwn.net/Articles/477678/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/109154/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-201201-15.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/cve/CVE-2011-2922","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-2922","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-LINUX-KTSUSS-174466","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49151","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2922","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}