Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-45062

Critical

Published: 09 November 2022

Published
09 November 2022
Modified
01 May 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 0.0302 86.9th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-45062 is a critical-severity Argument Injection (CWE-88) vulnerability in Xfce Xfce4-Settings. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 13.1% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

In Xfce xfce4-settings before 4.16.4 and 4.17.x before 4.17.1, there is an argument injection vulnerability in xfce4-mime-helper.

CWE(s)
CWE-88

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

xfce
xfce4-settings
4.17.0 · ≤ 4.16.4
debian
debian linux
11.0
fedoraproject
fedora
37

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References