CVE-2022-35171 Denial of service in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer

Medium 5.5 Published 12 Jul 2022 Updated 3 Aug 2024

Attackers can cause a denial of service by tricking users into opening malicious JPEG 2000 files in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: A user has to click or open something
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2022-35171?

CVE-2022-35171 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Sap 3d Visual Enterprise Viewer, published on 12 Jul 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

When a user opens manipulated JPEG 2000 (.jp2, jp2k.x3d) files received from untrusted sources in SAP 3D Visual Enterprise Viewer, the application crashes and becomes temporarily unavailable to the user until restart of the application. The file format details along with their CVE relevant information can be found below

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-35171?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Sap 3d Visual Enterprise Viewer.

How do I fix CVE-2022-35171?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-35171 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-2022-35171 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-35171 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-xxpx-w698-q23j.