Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-36961

High

Published: 30 September 2022

Published
30 September 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.1177 93.9th percentile
Risk Priority 25 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-36961 is a high-severity SQL Injection (CWE-89) vulnerability in Solarwinds Orion Platform. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 6.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Deeper analysis

CVE-2022-36961 is an SQL injection vulnerability (CWE-89) affecting a component of the SolarWinds Orion Platform. The flaw carries a CVSS 3.1 score of 8.8 and was publicly disclosed on 30 September 2022.

An authenticated attacker with network access can supply crafted input to the vulnerable component, enabling privilege escalation or remote code execution on the affected Orion Platform instance.

SolarWinds has published an advisory and corresponding release notes for the SolarWinds Platform 2022.3 update that address the issue; the advisory and release notes are available at the vendor URLs listed for this CVE.

The EPSS score for the vulnerability has remained at 0.1177 from disclosure through the present measurement.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerable component of Orion Platform was vulnerable to SQL Injection, an authenticated attacker could leverage this for privilege escalation or remote code execution.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

solarwinds
orion platform
≤ 2022.2.0

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.

addresses: CWE-89

Penetration testing uses SQL injection payloads against database interfaces, identifying and supporting fixes for SQL injection weaknesses.

addresses: CWE-89

Validates query inputs to prevent SQL syntax or command manipulation.

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