Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-23990

High

Published: 26 January 2022

Published
26 January 2022
Modified
05 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0370 88.2th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-23990 is a high-severity Integer Overflow or Wraparound (CWE-190) vulnerability in Tenable Nessus. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 11.8% 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 an integer overflow in the doProlog function.

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
tenable
nessus
≤ 8.15.3 · 10.0.0 — 10.1.1
oracle
communications metasolv solution
6.3.1
debian
debian linux
10.0, 11.0
fedoraproject
fedora
34, 35
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