VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2022-43997
Incorrect access control in Aternity agent in Riverbed Aternity before 12.1.4.27 allows for local privilege escalation.
HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.36%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.36%). 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
- 0.36% probability · 30th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-269
- Affected
- aternity/aternity
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
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. Refreshed daily.