Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-28884

Medium

Published: 06 September 2022

Published
06 September 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0034 57.3th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-28884 is a medium-severity Infinite Loop (CWE-835) vulnerability in Withsecure Business Suite. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 42.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A Denial-of-Service vulnerability was discovered in the F-Secure and WithSecure products where aerdl.dll may go into an infinite loop when unpacking PE files. It is possible that this can crash the scanning engine.

CWE(s)
CWE-835

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

withsecure
business suite
all versions
withsecure
elements endpoint protection
all versions
f-secure
internet gatekeeper
all versions
f-secure
linux security
all versions

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.

CP-7 Alternate Processing Site
addresses: CWE-835

Enables transfer to alternate site if an infinite loop at the primary renders processing unavailable.

SC-5 Denial-of-service Protection
addresses: CWE-835

Detects and mitigates infinite loops that produce sustained resource consumption.

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