Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-36966

Medium

Published: 20 October 2022

Published
20 October 2022
Modified
07 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0032 55.4th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-36966 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) vulnerability in Solarwinds Orion Platform. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 44.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Users with Node Management rights were able to view and edit all nodes due to Insufficient control on URL parameter causing insecure direct object reference (IDOR) vulnerability in SolarWinds Platform 2022.3 and previous.

CWE(s)
CWE-639

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

solarwinds
orion platform
2020.2.6, 2022.2, 2022.3 · ≤ 2020.2.6

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.

AC-24 Access Control Decisions
addresses: CWE-639

Per-request decision making makes it harder to bypass authorization using user-controlled keys without proper validation in the decision process.

AC-3 Access Enforcement
addresses: CWE-639

Consistent enforcement of approved authorizations makes bypassing via user-controlled keys ineffective.

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