CVE-2022-46996

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2022-46996 · Published 14/12/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-46996 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting vsphere selfuse (vsphere selfuse project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 72.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
vsphere selfuse vsphere_selfuse_project	`= 2019-07-22`	No fix yet

Description

vSphere_selfuse commit 2a9fe074a64f6a0dd8ac02f21e2f10d66cac5749 was discovered to contain a code execution backdoor via the request package. This vulnerability allows attackers to access sensitive user information and digital currency keys, as well as escalate privileges.

References

SHenry07/vSphere_selfuse · Product
SHenry07/vSphere_selfuse · Exploit
mirrors.neusoft.edu.cn/pypi/web/simple/request · Third Party Advisory

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