What is CVE-2022-36088?

CVE-2022-36088 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gocd, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2022-09-07.

How severe is CVE-2022-36088?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.

Privilege escalation in Gocd

CVE-2022-36088

GoCD is a continuous delivery server. Windows installations via either the server or agent installers for GoCD prior to 22.2.0 do not adequately restrict permissions when installing outside of the default location. This could allow a malicious user with local access to the server GoCD Server or Agent are installed on to modify executables or components of the installation. This does not affect zip file-based installs, installations to other platforms, or installations inside `Program Files` or `Program Files (x86)`. This issue is fixed in GoCD 22.2.0 installers. As a workaround, if the server or agent is installed outside of `Program Files (x86)`, verify the the permission of the Server or Agent installation directory to ensure the `Everyone` user group does not have `Full Control`, `Modify` or `Write` permissions.

Vulnerability class: Privilege Escalation

Published 2022-09-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (12.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 13th percentile — 12.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

github.com/gocd/gocd/security/advisories/GHSA-gpv4-xqhc-5vcj (Third Party Advisory, Mitigation)
github.com/gocd/gocd/commit/96add9605096ab50c5cd4c229be1d503aff506a6 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/gocd/gocd/releases/tag/22.2.0 (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)
www.gocd.org/releases/ (Third Party Advisory, Release Notes)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-36088?: CVE-2022-36088 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gocd, classified under Improper Privilege Management. CVSS score: 5.0/10. Published 2022-09-07.
How severe is CVE-2022-36088?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.0 out of 10.