What is CVE-2022-27579?

CVE-2022-27579 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sick Flexi Soft Designer, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-07-19.

How severe is CVE-2022-27579?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Deserialization in Sick Flexi Soft Designer

CVE-2022-27579

A deserialization vulnerability in a .NET framework class used and not properly checked by Flexi Soft Designer in all versions up to and including 1.9.4 SP1 allows an attacker to craft malicious project files. Opening/importing such a malicious project file would execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user when opened or imported by the Flexi Soft Designer. This compromises confidentiality integrity and availability. For the attack to succeed a user must manually open a malicious project file.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

EPSS: 0.004 (28.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Sick Flexi_soft_designer — versions 1.9.4
N/a Sick Flexi Soft Designer — versions All versions up to and including 1.9.4 SP1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

psirt@sick.de (x_refsource_MISC, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-27579?: CVE-2022-27579 is a high-severity vulnerability in Sick Flexi Soft Designer, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2022-07-19.
How severe is CVE-2022-27579?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.