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)

Published 2022-05-11 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.021 (81.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 81.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Microstrategy Enterprise Manager — versions 2022

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

References

github.com/haxpunk1337/Microstrategy-Poc/blob/main/poc (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

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.