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CVE-2022-30526

36
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-30526 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Zyxel USG FLEX, ATP, VPN, and USG/ZyWALL series firewalls, allowing a local attacker to execute OS commands with root privileges. Rated 7.8 HIGH on CVSS, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local access, but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV catalog, a Metasploit module exists, and it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating potential for exploitation.

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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 4.16, <= 5.30CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:zyxel:usg_flex_50w_firmware:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.13%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
63.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Zyxel Firewall SUID Binary Privilege Escalation · Jun 14, 2022
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0113 is in the 93rd 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

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/168202/Zyxel-Firewall-SUID-Binary-Privilege-Escalation.html
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
zyxel.com / support/Zyxel-security-advisory-authenticated-directory-traversal-vulnerabilities-of-firewalls.shtml
Vendor Advisory