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CVE-2022-45639

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-45639 describes an OS Command Injection vulnerability in version 4.11.1 of The Sleuth Kit's fls tool, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary commands through a crafted 'm' parameter. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating that a local attacker with low privileges can achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability without user interaction. While third parties dispute the exploitability outside the user's context, public exploit code (EDB-51225) exists, though there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit/Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.11.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:sleuthkit:the_sleuth_kit:4.11.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-51225 · Apr 3, 2023
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0466 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 17,070 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 sleuthkit 4.12.1-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 sleuthkit on CBL Mariner 2.0
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 20112-17084
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19657-16823

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2023-Jan/CVE-2022-45639Important

OS Command injection vulnerability in sleuthkit fls tool 4.11.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted value to the m parameter. NOTE: third parties have disputed this because there is no analysis showing that the backtick command executes outside the context of the user account that entered the command line.

Jan 10, 2023

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/171649/Sleuthkit-4.11.1-Command-Injection.html
binaryworld.it / guidepoc.asp
Broken Link
binaryworld.it
ExploitVendor Advisory