Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-4883

High

Published: 07 February 2023

Published
07 February 2023
Modified
20 March 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0018 40.0th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-4883 is a high-severity Untrusted Search Path (CWE-426) vulnerability in X.Org Libxpm. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 40.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A flaw was found in libXpm. When processing files with .Z or .gz extensions, the library calls external programs to compress and uncompress files, relying on the PATH environment variable to find these programs, which could allow a malicious user…

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to execute other programs by manipulating the PATH environment variable.

CWE(s)
CWE-426

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

x.org
libxpm
≤ 3.5.15

Mitigating Controls

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

References