CVE-2022-0551 Authenticated RCE on project configuration import in Guardian/CMC before 22.0.0

What is CVE-2022-0551?

CVE-2022-0551 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Nozomi Networks CMC, published on 24 Mar 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Improper Input Validation vulnerability in project file upload in Nozomi Networks Guardian and CMC allows an authenticated attacker with admin or import manager roles to execute unattended commands on the appliance using web server user privileges. This issue affects: Nozomi Networks Guardian versions prior to 22.0.0. Nozomi Networks CMC versions prior to 22.0.0.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0551?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Nozominetworks Cmc, Nozominetworks Guardian.

How do I fix CVE-2022-0551?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-0551 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2022-0551 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0551 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Nozomi Networks CMC

• CVE-2023-29245 SQL Injection on IDS parsing of malformed asset fields in Guardian/CMC >= 22.6.0 before 22.6.3 and 23.1.0 Critical 9.2
• CVE-2026-31984 DoS through oversized audit log entries in Guardian/CMC before 26.2.0 High 8.7
• CVE-2023-2567 Authenticated SQL Injection on Query functionality in Guardian/CMC before 22.6.3 and 23.1.0 High 8.7
• CVE-2023-22378 Authenticated Blind SQL Injection on sorting in Guardian/CMC before 22.6.2 High 8.7
• CVE-2023-23574 Authenticated Blind SQL Injection on alerts count in Guardian/CMC before 22.6.2 High 8.7

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-r8jv-c3jp-366j.