CVE-2022-28887 (GCVE-0-2022-28887)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-10-12 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-15 18:26
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Multiple Denial of Service Vulnerability
Summary
Multiple Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in F-Secure & WithSecure products whereby the aerdl.dll unpacker handler function crashes. This can lead to a possible scanning engine crash.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-05-15 18:26 UTC
CWE
- Multiple Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerability
- CWE-404 - Improper Resource Shutdown or Release
Assigner
References
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| F-Secure and WithSecure | All F-Secure and WithSecure Endpoint Protection products for Windows & Mac F-Secure Linux Security (32-bit) F-Secure Linux Security (64-bit) F-Secure Atlant F-Secure Internet Gatekeeper |
Affected:
All Version
|
guessed |
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- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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