Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-40264

Medium

Published: 14 December 2022

Published
14 December 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0040 60.9th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-40264 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Iconics Genesis64. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 39.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in ICONICS/Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS64 versions 10.96 to 10.97.2 allows an unauthenticated attacker to create, tamper with or destroy arbitrary files by getting a legitimate user import a project…

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package file crafted by the attacker.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

iconics
genesis64
10.96 — 10.97.2

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-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

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