CVE-2022-33182 Privilege escalation in Brocade Fabric OS

What is CVE-2022-33182?

CVE-2022-33182 is a high-severity vulnerability in Broadcom Fabric Operating System, published on 25 Oct 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Brocade Fabric OS CLI before Brocade Fabric OS v9.1.0, 9.0.1e, 8.2.3c, 8.2.0cbn5, could allow a local authenticated user to escalate its privilege to root using switch commands “supportlink”, “firmwaredownload”, “portcfgupload, license, and “fosexec”.

Weakness: CWE-276

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-33182?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Broadcom Fabric Operating System.

How do I fix CVE-2022-33182?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-33182 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-33182 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-33182 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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