PT-2023-14204 · Checkmk · Checkmk

Jan-Philipp Litza · Published 2023-02-09 · Updated 2024-07-23 · CVE-2022-43440

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

8.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Checkmk versions prior to 2.1.0p1 Checkmk versions prior to 2.0.0p25 Checkmk versions prior to 1.6.0p29

Description The issue allows a site user to escalate privileges via a manipulated unixcat executable due to an uncontrolled search path element in the Checkmk Agent.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.1.0p1, update to version 2.1.0p1 or later. For versions prior to 2.0.0p25, update to version 2.0.0p25 or later. For versions prior to 1.6.0p29, update to version 1.6.0p29 or later.

Fix

Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-427

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-43440

Affected Products

Checkmk

References · 6

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-43440 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-43440 · Vendor Advisory
• https://checkmk.com/werk/14087 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-43440 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-43440 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-43440 · Security Note