Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-25969

High

Published: 17 March 2022

Published
17 March 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0037 59.1th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-25969 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Kingsoft Wps Office. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 40.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The installer of WPS Office Version 10.8.0.6186 insecurely load VERSION.DLL (or some other DLLs), allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privilege of the user invoking the installer.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

kingsoft
wps office
10.8.0.6186

Mitigating Controls

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

References