CVE-2022-25089
Published: 03 March 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-25089 is a critical-severity Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) vulnerability in Kofax Printix. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 2.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
Deeper analysis
Printix Secure Cloud Print Management through version 1.3.1106.0 contains an improper privilege management flaw (CWE-269) in which the UITasks.PersistentRegistryData component invokes privileged APIs to alter values under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. The issue received a CVSS 3.1 base score of 9.8 and was published on 3 March 2022.
An unauthenticated network attacker can send crafted requests that leverage the exposed privileged APIs, resulting in arbitrary registry modifications that confer full control over confidentiality, integrity, and availability on the affected host. Public proof-of-concept code demonstrating the abuse has been posted to Exploit-DB and GitHub.
The EPSS score stands at 0.4786 with an identical recorded peak, indicating sustained but not sharply increasing exploitation interest since disclosure. No vendor advisory or patch information appears among the supplied references.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-29833
Vulnerability details
Printix Secure Cloud Print Management through 1.3.1106.0 incorrectly uses Privileged APIs to modify values in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE via UITasks.PersistentRegistryData.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Policy addresses roles, responsibilities, and privilege management to prevent improper privilege assignments.
Access supervision ensures privileges are assigned and managed without improper escalation or retention.
Assigning group/role memberships and access authorizations (privileges) while reviewing accounts addresses improper privilege management.
Enforces proper privilege management by requiring all decisions through the verified reference monitor.
By mandating division of duties across roles, the control enforces proper privilege management and prevents a single entity from controlling an entire sensitive process.
Implements core proper privilege management by restricting to only required rights.
Policy requires training on privilege management and least privilege, making it harder to exploit improper privilege management weaknesses.
Training covers proper privilege management practices, making incorrect privilege assignments less likely.