What is CVE-2022-29596?

CVE-2022-29596 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Microstrategy Enterprise Manager, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-05-11.

How severe is CVE-2022-29596?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Path Traversal in Microstrategy Enterprise Manager

CVE-2022-29596

MicroStrategy Enterprise Manager 2022 allows authentication bypass by triggering a login failure and then entering the Uid=/../../../../../../../../../../../windows/win.ini%00.jpg&Pwd=_any_password_&ConnMode=1&3054=Login substring for directory traversal.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.021 (80.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Microstrategy Enterprise_manager — versions 2022
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-29596?: CVE-2022-29596 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Microstrategy Enterprise Manager, classified under Path Traversal. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-05-11.
How severe is CVE-2022-29596?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.