CVE-2022-23171 describes a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability in AtlasVPN for Windows. An attacker with low privileges can exploit improper security controls on named pipe messages to execute malicious payloads and gain SYSTEM-level permissions. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no public exploit code available, it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 2.4.0, <= 2.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:atlasvpn:atlasvpn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.