CVE-2022-35629
Published: 29 July 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-35629 is a medium-severity Improper Authentication (CWE-287) vulnerability in Rapid7 Velociraptor. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 36.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-38510
Vulnerability details
Due to a bug in the handling of the communication between the client and server, it was possible for one client, already registered with their own client ID, to send messages to the server claiming to come from another client…
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ID. This issue was resolved in Velociraptor 0.6.5-2.
- 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.
Detects unauthorized successful logons resulting from improper authentication implementations.
Security awareness training instructs users on secure authentication practices and avoiding credential compromise.
Identity proofing requires collecting, validating, and verifying evidence to resolve claims to unique individuals, directly preventing insufficient proof of identity during account establishment.
Enforces unique device identification and authentication before any connection is established, directly mitigating improper authentication weaknesses.
Mandates unique identification and authentication of non-organizational users, directly mitigating improper authentication.
Requires unique identification and authentication of services before any communications, directly mitigating improper authentication.
Requires authentication mechanisms on the wireless link, making improper authentication weaknesses harder to exploit.
Documented procedures ensure personnel are trained on authentication mechanisms, tangibly lowering the risk of improper authentication being exploited.