Vulnerability in Dominionvoting Democracy Suite
CVE-2022-48506
A flawed pseudorandom number generator in Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast Precinct (ICP and ICP2) and ImageCast Evolution (ICE) scanners allows anyone to determine the order in which ballots were cast from public ballot-level data, allowing deanonymization of voted ballots, in several types of scenarios. This issue was observed for use of the following versions of Democracy Suite: 5.2, 5.4-NM, 5.5, 5.5-A, 5.5-B, 5.5-C, 5.5-D, 5.7-A, 5.10, 5.10A, 5.15. NOTE: the Democracy Suite 5.17 EAC Certificate of Conformance mentions "Improved pseudo random number algorithm," which may be relevant.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 2.4 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (27.3th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 27th percentile — 27.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Dominionvoting Democracy Suite — versions 5.2, 5.4-nm, 5.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- dvsorder.org (Product)
- freedom-to-tinker.com/2023/06/14/security-analysis-of-the-dominion-imagecast-x/ (Third Party Advisory)
- www.eac.gov/voting-equipment/democracy-suite-517 (US Government Resource, Product)
- www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/voting_system/files/D-Suite 5.17 Certificate an… (US Government Resource, Product)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2022-48506?
- CVE-2022-48506 is a low-severity vulnerability in Dominionvoting Democracy Suite, classified under Use of Cryptographically Weak Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG). CVSS score: 2.4/10. Published 2023-06-19.
- How severe is CVE-2022-48506?
- Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 2.4 out of 10.