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CVE-2022-2030

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2030 is a directory traversal vulnerability affecting various Zyxel USG FLEX, ATP, VPN, and USG/ZyWALL series firewall firmware versions. An authenticated attacker can exploit improperly sanitized URLs containing specific character sequences to access restricted files on the device. Rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.5, this vulnerability requires authentication (PR:L) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and can lead to high confidentiality impact (C:H). Currently, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or KEV listing, though there has been some community discussion on Reddit.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.50, <= 5.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:usg_flex_100w_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.50, <= 5.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:usg_flex_200_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.50, <= 5.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:usg_flex_500_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.50, <= 5.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:usg_flex_700_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.20, <= 5.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:usg_flex_50w_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0120 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 21,977 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

zyxel.com / support/Zyxel-security-advisory-authenticated-directory-traversal-vulnerabilities-of-firewalls.shtml
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