What is CVE-2022-35975?

CVE-2022-35975 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Weave Gitops Tools, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.0/10. Published 2022-08-18.

How severe is CVE-2022-35975?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.0 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-35975 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RCE in Weave Gitops Tools

CVE-2022-35975

The GitOps Tools Extension for VSCode can make it easier to manage Flux objects. A specially crafted Flux object may allow for remote code execution in the machine running the extension, in the context of the user that is running VSCode. Users using the VSCode extension to manage clusters that are shared amongst other users are affected by this issue. The only safe mitigation is to update to the latest version of the extension.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.011 (63.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.0 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weave Gitops_tools
Weaveworks Vscode-gitops-tools — versions >= 0.7.0, <= 0.20.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

karimhabush/cyberowl

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-35975?: CVE-2022-35975 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Weave Gitops Tools, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.0/10. Published 2022-08-18.
How severe is CVE-2022-35975?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.0 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-35975 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.