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CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2022-22951

Carbon Black App Control vulnerability

CVSS
9.1
EPSS
22.4%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
VMware Carbon Black App Control (8.5.x prior to 8.5.14, 8.6.x prior to 8.6.6, 8.7.x prior to 8.7.4 and 8.8.x prior to 8.8.2) contains an OS command injection vulnerability. An authenticated, high privileged malicious actor with network access to the VMware App Control administration interface may be able to execute commands on the server due to improper input validation leading to remote code execution.
Affected vendor
Vmware
Affected product
Carbon Black App Control
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-78 — OS Command Injection
Published
2022-03-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring high privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 22.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2022-22951

  • Confirm whether Vmware Carbon Black App Control is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2022-22951.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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