CVE-2022-40264 Path traversal in GENESIS64

What is CVE-2022-40264?

CVE-2022-40264 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in ICONICS and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation GENESIS64, published on 13 Dec 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

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') vulnerability in ICONICS/Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS64 versions 10.96 to 10.97.2 allows an unauthenticated attacker to create, tamper with or destroy arbitrary files by getting a legitimate user import a project package file crafted by the attacker.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-40264?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Iconics Genesis64.

How do I fix CVE-2022-40264?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-40264 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2022-40264 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-40264 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in ICONICS and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation GENESIS64

• CVE-2022-33318 Deserialization in GENESIS32 Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-33319 Information disclosure in GENESIS32 High 8.2
• CVE-2024-7587 Misconfiguration in GENESIS32 High 7.8
• CVE-2022-33315 Deserialization in GENESIS64 High 7.8
• CVE-2022-33316 Deserialization in GENESIS64 High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-vhq6-x2hv-fhjv.