CVE-2022-40984
Published: 24 October 2022
Summary
CVE-2022-40984 is a critical-severity Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) vulnerability in Yokogawa Wtviewere 761941. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).
Operationally, ranked in the top 28.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-44230
Vulnerability details
Stack-based buffer overflow in WTViewerE series WTViewerE 761941 from 1.31 to 1.61 and WTViewerEfree from 1.01 to 1.52 allows an attacker to cause the product to crash by processing a long file name.
- 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.
Out-of-bounds writes that corrupt control flow or inject shellcode are rendered non-executable by the same memory protections.