CVE-2022-43516 (GCVE-0-2022-43516)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-12 01:49 – Updated: 2025-04-18 18:09
VLAI
Title
Zabbix Agent installer adds “allow all TCP any any” firewall rule
Summary
A Firewall Rule which allows all incoming TCP connections to all programs from any source and to all ports is created in Windows Firewall after Zabbix agent installation (MSI)
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-18 18:08 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Zabbix Zabbix agent (MSI packages) Affected: Oct. 29, 2022 - Dec 2, 2022
Unaffected: Dec 3, 2022 , < unspecified (custom)
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Zabbix Zabbix agent 2 (MSI packages) Affected: Oct. 29, 2022 - Dec 2, 2022
Unaffected: Dec 3, 2022 , < unspecified (custom)
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Date Public
2022-11-30 00:00
Credits
Joshua PowellNishiyama
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Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

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