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CVE-2022-32272

46
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-32272 is a critical privilege escalation vulnerability affecting OPSWAT MetaDefender Core (before 5.1.2), MetaDefender ICAP (before 4.12.1), and MetaDefender Email Gateway Security (before 5.6.1) due to incorrect access control. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve full compromise (confidentiality, integrity, availability) with low attack complexity over the network. While not currently in the KEV catalog or showing widespread community discussion, a public exploit (EDB-51113) exists, indicating potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:opswat:metadefender:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
9.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-51113 · Mar 28, 2023
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0910 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/171549/OPSWAT-Metadefender-Core-4.21.1-Privilege-Escalation.html
docs.opswat.com / mdcore/release-notes
Release NotesVendor Advisory
docs.opswat.com / mdemail/release-notes
docs.opswat.com / mdemail/release-notes/version-5-6-1
docs.opswat.com / mdicap/release-notes
docs.opswat.com / mdicap/release-notes/version-4-12-1
opswat.com
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