Is CVE-2022-27905 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2022-27905 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2022-27905?

CVE-2022-27905 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.2 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2022-27905?

CVE-2022-27905 has an EPSS score of 1.04% (60th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2022-27905?

Upgrade controlup to 8.6 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2022-27905

HIGH

7.2

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

In ControlUp Real-Time Agent before 8.6, an unquoted path can result in privilege escalation. An attacker would require write permissions to the root level of the OS drive (C:\) to exploit this.

CWE-428

How to fix

Remediation Available

controlupNVD

Affected:< 8.6Fixed in:8.6CVE-2022-27905derived from NVD

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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredHigh

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

1.04%probability of exploitation in 30 days

60thpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 60% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch1

controlup.com

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-428 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2023-38408	Critical	9.8	79%	-	Fix
CVE-2020-15261	High	8.0	11%	-	Fix
CVE-2018-10619	High	7.8	2.8%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-17658	Critical	9.8	2.2%	-	-
CVE-2015-4173	Medium	6.9	2.1%	-	Fix
CVE-2019-16647	High	7.2	2.0%	-	-

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2024-11-21.