What is CVE-2022-40817?

CVE-2022-40817 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zammad, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2022-09-27.

How severe is CVE-2022-40817?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Zammad

CVE-2022-40817

Zammad 5.2.1 has a fine-grained permission model that allows to configure read-only access to tickets. However, agents were still wrongly able to perform some operations on such tickets, like adding and removing links, tags. and related answers. This issue has been fixed in 5.2.2.

EPSS: 0.004 (35.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Zammad
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-732 — Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-40817?: CVE-2022-40817 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Zammad, classified under Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2022-09-27.
How severe is CVE-2022-40817?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.