CVE-2022-1736 Misconfiguration in Ubuntu's gnome-control-center

What is CVE-2022-1736?

CVE-2022-1736 is a critical vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 31 Jan 2025. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Ubuntu's configuration of gnome-control-center allowed Remote Desktop Sharing to be enabled by default.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1736?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Gnome Gnome-Remote-Desktop.

How do I fix CVE-2022-1736?

Change a configuration setting.

Is CVE-2022-1736 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1736 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-1736, GHSA-hh5g-6rhm-ccx9, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1736, USN-5430-1, openSUSE-SU-2024:12246-1.