Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-45026

CriticalPublic PoCRCE

Published: 07 December 2022

Published
07 December 2022
Modified
23 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0084 75.2th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-45026 is a critical-severity OS Command Injection (CWE-78) vulnerability in Markdown Preview Enhanced Project Markdown Preview Enhanced. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 24.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue in Markdown Preview Enhanced v0.6.5 and v0.19.6 for VSCode and Atom allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands during the GFM export process.

CWE(s)
CWE-78

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

markdown preview enhanced project
markdown preview enhanced
0.19.6, 0.6.5

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.

SC-27 Platform-independent Applications
addresses: CWE-78

Platform-independent apps typically execute inside a managed runtime or sandbox that restricts direct OS command execution, reducing the ability to exploit OS command injection.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-78

Validates inputs to block special elements that would alter OS command execution.

References