Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-38789

Critical

Published: 15 September 2022

Published
15 September 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0051 66.8th percentile
Risk Priority 19 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-38789 is a critical-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) vulnerability in Airties Air 4920 Firmware. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 33.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in Airties Smart Wi-Fi before 2020-08-04. It allows attackers to change the main/guest SSID and the PSK to arbitrary values, and map the LAN, because of Insecure Direct Object Reference.

CWE(s)
CWE-639

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

airties
air 4920 firmware
≤ 2020-08-04
airties
air 4921 firmware
≤ 2020-08-04
airties
air 4971 firmware
≤ 2020-08-04

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.

References