# CVE-2022-22455: Privilege escalation in Security Verify Governance

> IBM Security Verify Governance Identity Manager runs with excessive privileges, allowing attackers to escalate permissions or amplify other vulnerabilities.

- **Severity:** Low 2.3 (`CVSS:3.0/AC:L/I:N/UI:N/A:N/AV:L/C:L/S:U/PR:H/E:U/RC:C/RL:O`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 17 Aug 2022
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5pxj-3776-8xhv

## What is CVE-2022-22455?

CVE-2022-22455 is a low-severity vulnerability in IBM Security Verify Governance, published on 17 Aug 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

IBM Security Verify Governance Identity Manager 10.0 virtual appliance component performs an operation at a privilege level that is higher than the minimum level required, which creates new weaknesses or amplifies the consequences of other weaknesses. IBM X-Force ID: 224989.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-22455?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Security Verify Governance.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-22455?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-22455 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-22455 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-22455 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM Security Verify Governance

- [CVE-2025-36003](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-36003/): IBM Security Verify Governance Identity Manager information disclosure (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2023-33839](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-33839/): IBM Security Verify Governance command execution (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2023-35019](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-35019/): IBM Security Verify Governance command execution (high 7.2)
- [CVE-2022-22466](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22466/): IBM Security Verify Governance information disclosure (medium 6.8)
- [CVE-2023-35016](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-35016/): IBM Security Verify Governance path traversal (medium 6.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-22455 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-22455 is a low-severity vulnerability in IBM Security Verify Governance, published on 17 Aug 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-22455 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: IBM Security Verify Governance. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22455/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22455/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-22455
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22455
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-22455

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22455/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.