What is CVE-2022-4987?

CVE-2022-4987 is a high-severity vulnerability in Belden Hirschmann Industrial Hivision, classified under Untrusted Search Path. CVSS score: 7.3/10. Published 2026-04-03.

How severe is CVE-2022-4987?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Belden Hirschmann Industrial Hivision

CVE-2022-4987

Hirschmann Industrial HiVision version 08.1.03 prior to 08.1.04 and 08.2.00 contains a vulnerability in the execution of user-configured external applications that allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary binaries. Due to insufficient path sanitization, an attacker can place a malicious binary in the execution path of a configured external application, causing it to be executed instead of the intended application. This can result in execution with elevated privileges depending on the context of the external application.

EPSS: 0.001 (2.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.3 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Belden Hirschmann Industrial Hivision — versions 0, 08.2.00, 08.1.04

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-426 — Untrusted Search Path

References

disclosure@vulncheck.com (vendor-advisory)
disclosure@vulncheck.com (third-party-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-4987?: CVE-2022-4987 is a high-severity vulnerability in Belden Hirschmann Industrial Hivision, classified under Untrusted Search Path. CVSS score: 7.3/10. Published 2026-04-03.
How severe is CVE-2022-4987?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.3 out of 10.