THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2022-36633
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2022-36633

Teleport vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
49.5%
EPSS pct
99th
Exploited
No known
Teleport 9.3.6 is vulnerable to Command injection leading to Remote Code Execution. An attacker can craft a malicious ssh agent installation link by URL encoding a bash escape with carriage return line feed. This url encoded payload can be used in place of a token and sent to a user in a social engineering attack. This is fully unauthenticated attack utilizing the trusted teleport server to deliver the payload.
Affected vendor
Goteleport
Affected product
Teleport
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-78 — OS Command Injection
Published
2022-08-24

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 49.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it among the most exploited CVEs currently tracked.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2022-36633

  • Confirm whether Goteleport Teleport is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2022-36633.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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