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CVE-2022-36436

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

OSU Open Source Lab VNCAuthProxy through 1.1.1 is affected by an vncap/vnc/protocol.py VNCServerAuthenticator authentication-bypass vulnerability that could allow a malicious actor to gain unauthorized access to a VNC session or to disconnect a legitimate user from a VNC session. A remote attacker with network access to the proxy server could leverage this vulnerability to connect to VNC servers protected by the proxy server without providing any authentication credentials. Exploitation of this issue requires that the proxy server is currently accepting connections for the target VNC server.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published9/14/2022

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

osuosl:twisted_vnc_authentication_proxy

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-287CWE-287

References

https://cert.grnet.gr/en/blog/cve-2022-36436-twisted-vnc-authentication-proxy-authentication-bypass/(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/osuosl/twisted_vncauthproxy/commit/edc149af29242178091b2d6fcd42c3ef0851644b(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/osuosl/twisted_vncauthproxy/tree/release/1.1.1(cve@mitre.org)

https://pypi.org/project/VNCAuthProxy/(cve@mitre.org)

https://cert.grnet.gr/en/blog/cve-2022-36436-twisted-vnc-authentication-proxy-authentication-bypass/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/osuosl/twisted_vncauthproxy/commit/edc149af29242178091b2d6fcd42c3ef0851644b(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/osuosl/twisted_vncauthproxy/tree/release/1.1.1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://pypi.org/project/VNCAuthProxy/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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