Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-23852

Critical

Published: 24 January 2022

Published
24 January 2022
Modified
05 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0162 82.2th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-23852 is a critical-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 17.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Expat (aka libexpat) before 2.4.4 has a signed integer overflow in XML_GetBuffer, for configurations with a nonzero XML_CONTEXT_BYTES.

CWE(s)
CWE-190

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

libexpat project
libexpat
≤ 2.4.4
netapp
clustered data ontap
all versions
netapp
oncommand workflow automation
all versions
tenable
nessus
≤ 8.15.3 · 10.0.0 — 10.1.1
oracle
communications metasolv solution
6.3.1
debian
debian linux
9.0
siemens
sinema remote connect server
≤ 3.1

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References