What is CVE-2022-35490?

CVE-2022-35490 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Zammad, classified under Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-08-08.

How severe is CVE-2022-35490?

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

Vulnerability in Zammad

CVE-2022-35490

Zammad 5.2.0 is vulnerable to privilege escalation. Zammad has a prevention against brute-force attacks trying to guess login credentials. After a configurable amount of attempts, users are invalidated and logins prevented. An attacker might work around this prevention, enabling them to send more than the configured amount of requests before the user invalidation takes place.

EPSS: 0.008 (51.6th 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

Zammad — versions 5.2.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-307 — Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-35490?: CVE-2022-35490 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Zammad, classified under Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-08-08.
How severe is CVE-2022-35490?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.