CVE-2022-28877
Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in F-Secure & WithSecure Windows Endpoint Products
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- F-SecureUS
Description
This vulnerability allows local user to delete arbitrary file in the system and bypassing security protection which can be abused for local privilege escalation on affected F-Secure & WithSecure windows endpoint products. An attacker must have code execution rights on the victim machine prior to successful exploitation.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| F-SecureUSCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.43% · top 62% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
- Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in F-Secure & WithSecure Windows Endpoint Products
Affected products
F-Secure and WithSecure · All F-Secure and WithSecure Endpoint Protection Products for Windows
- affected All Version
What to do
Solution: FIX No User action is required. The required fix has been published through automatic update channel with UlcoreWin database on 2022-07-19_01
References (2)
- https://www.f-secure.com/en/business/support-and-downloads/security-advisories (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.withsecure.com/en/support/security-advisories (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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