CVE-2022-43997
Incorrect access control in Aternity agent in Riverbed Aternity before 12.1.4.27 allows for local privilege escalation.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.33%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Incorrect access control in Aternity agent in Riverbed Aternity before 12.1.4.27 allows for local privilege escalation. There is an insufficiently protected handle to the A180AG.exe SYSTEM process with PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS rights.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.33% probability · 26th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- Affected
- aternity/aternity
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 0.3% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://gist.github.com/jackullrich/21fcfe75aeb5e18c60b80e684b83d741Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://winternl.com/cve-2022-43997/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://gist.github.com/jackullrich/21fcfe75aeb5e18c60b80e684b83d741Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://winternl.com/cve-2022-43997/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.