Is CVE-2022-44020 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2022-44020 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2022-44020?

CVE-2022-44020 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.5 (MEDIUM).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2022-44020?

CVE-2022-44020 has an EPSS score of 0.22% (12th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2022-44020?

Upgrade sushy-tools to 0.21.1 or later. Fixes are available for 2 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2022-44020

MEDIUM

5.5

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Sushy-Tools through 0.21.0 and VirtualBMC through 2.2.2. Changing the boot device configuration with these packages removes password protection from the managed libvirt XML domain. NOTE: this only affects an "unsupported, production-like configuration."

CWE-281

How to fix

Remediation Available

sushy-toolsNVD

Affected:< 0.21.1Fixed in:0.21.1CVE-2022-44020derived from NVD

virtualbmcNVD

Affected:< 3.0.0Fixed in:3.0.0CVE-2022-44020derived from NVD

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 VectorLocal

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredLow

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityNone

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityNone

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

Exploit Intelligence

0.22%probability of exploitation in 30 days

12thpercentile

Low risk: more likely to be exploited than 12% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch2

Other references4

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-281 vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

CVE	Severity	CVSS	EPSS	Exploited	Fix
CVE-2017-8543	Critical	9.8	74%	KEV	-
CVE-2019-0233	High	7.5	69%	-	-
CVE-2017-8589	Critical	9.8	26%	-	-
CVE-2021-33990	Critical	9.8	12%	-	-
CVE-2017-8563	High	8.1	7.2%	-	-
CVE-2017-8578	High	7.8	6.5%	-	-

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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 2025-05-07.