CVE-2022-34402 Denial of service in Wyse Proprietary OS (Modern ThinOS)

Medium 6.8 Published Updated

An admin privilege attacker can cause denial of service in Dell Wyse ThinOS via a Regular Expression vulnerability in the UI.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2022-34402?

CVE-2022-34402 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Dell Wyse Proprietary OS (Modern ThinOS), published on 10 Oct 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Dell Wyse ThinOS 2205 contains a Regular Expression Denial of Service Vulnerability in UI. An admin privilege attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to denial-of-service.

Weakness: CWE-1333

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-34402?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Dell Wyse Thinos.

How do I fix CVE-2022-34402?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-34402 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-34402 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-34402 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-v6q3-cj4x-h42r.

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