01 Record
CVE-2022-29549
An issue was discovered in Qualys Cloud Agent 4.8.0-49. It executes programs at various full pathnames without first making ownership and permission checks (e.g., to help ensure that a program was
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
An issue was discovered in Qualys Cloud Agent 4.8.0-49. It executes programs at various full pathnames without first making ownership and permission checks (e.g., to help ensure that a program was
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.27% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 20.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2022-08-18 12:16Z4 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 06:26Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2022-04-21
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-354Improper Validation of Integrity Check ValueBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 6413108bb2e0b68c16923b3386f30ee9304fc5ec835e8afde50f9b3d7cb12e8a
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- blog.qualys.comhttps://blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilities-threat-research
- software.firstworks.comhttp://software.firstworks.com/p/getting-started-with-firebird.html
- blog.qualys.comhttps://blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2022/08/15/qualys-security-updates-cloud-agent-for-linux
- seclists.org20220912 Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in Qualys Cloud Agenthttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Sep/10
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168367/Qualys-Cloud-Agent-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html