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CVE-2022-40976

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-40976 is a path traversal vulnerability affecting multiple Pilz products, allowing an unauthenticated local attacker to achieve arbitrary file writes via a malicious zipped configuration file (zip-slip). This vulnerability has a medium CVSS score of 5.5, indicating a low attack complexity and local access requirement, with the primary impact being high integrity loss due to file writes, though confidentiality and availability are not affected. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.25.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:pilz:pas_4000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pliz:pascal:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pliz:pasconnect:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pliz:pasmotion:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 10.14.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pliz:pnozmulti_configurator:*:*:*:*:long_term_support:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
12.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0022 is in the 16th percentile among its peer group of 5,760 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cert.vde.com / en/advisories/VDE-2022-044
Vendor Advisory
cert.vde.com / en/advisories/VDE-2022-045
Vendor Advisory