CVE-2022-28169 Privilege escalation in Brocade Fabric OS

What is CVE-2022-28169?

CVE-2022-28169 is a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System, published on 25 Oct 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Brocade Webtools in Brocade Fabric OS versions before Brocade Fabric OS versions v9.1.1, v9.0.1e, and v8.2.3c could allow a low privilege webtools, user, to gain elevated admin rights, or privileges, beyond what is intended or entitled for that user. By exploiting this vulnerability, a user whose role is not an admin can create a new user with an admin role using the operator session id. The issue was replicated after intercepting the admin, and operator authorization headers sent unencrypted and editing a user addition request to use the operator's authorization header.

Weakness: CWE-269

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-28169?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Broadcom Fabric Operating System.

How do I fix CVE-2022-28169?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-28169 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-28169 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-28169 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Broadcom Fabric Operating System

• CVE-2025-1976 Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS Code Injection Exploited High 8.6
• CVE-2021-22555 Linux Kernel Heap Out-of-Bounds Write Exploited High 8.3
• CVE-2022-33186 Command injection in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-27797 Hardcoded credentials in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-15371 Code injection in Brocade Fabric OS Critical 9.8

All Broadcom Fabric Operating System vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-c4gp-696g-43xv.