What is CVE-2022-28871?

CVE-2022-28871 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apple Macos, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2022-04-25.

How severe is CVE-2022-28871?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Apple Macos

CVE-2022-28871

A Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in F-Secure Atlant whereby the fsicapd component used in certain F-Secure products while scanning larger packages/fuzzed files consume too much memory eventually can crash the scanning engine. The exploit can be triggered remotely by an attacker.

EPSS: 0.005 (42.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

cve-notifications-us@f-secure.com (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
cve-notifications-us@f-secure.com (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-28871?: CVE-2022-28871 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apple Macos, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2022-04-25.
How severe is CVE-2022-28871?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.