PT-2023-15620 · Acuant · Acuant Acufill Sdk

Published 2023-04-04 · Updated 2023-04-11 · CVE-2022-48223

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.7

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Acuant AcuFill SDK versions prior to 10.22.02.03

Description An issue was discovered in the Acuant AcuFill SDK. During SDK repair, certutil.exe is called by the Acuant installer to repair certificates. This call is vulnerable to DLL hijacking due to a race condition and insecure permissions on the executing directory.

Recommendations For versions prior to 10.22.02.03, update to version 10.22.02.03 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the executing directory to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Uncontrolled Search Path Element

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-427

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-48223

Affected Products

Acuant Acufill Sdk

References · 5

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-48223 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-48223 · Vendor Advisory
• https://hackandpwn.com/disclosures/CVE-2022-48223.pdf · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/47514 · Telegram Post
• https://acuant.com · Note