🛡️ CVE-2022-46411 — access-appliance

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

• Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
• Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
• Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
• Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-46411 is classified as CWE-287: Improper Authentication. The identity of the caller is not established correctly, so an attacker can act as another user.

Affected software

CVE-2022-46411 is recorded against 2 packages.

• access-appliance (fixed in 8.0.100)
• netbackup-flex-scale-appliance (fixed in 3.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 4 December 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

access-appliance has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

• CVE-2022-46414 (9.8 Critical, published 4 Dec 2022)
• CVE-2022-46413 (8.8 High, published 4 Dec 2022)
• CVE-2022-22965 (9.8 Critical, published 1 Apr 2022)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-287: Improper Authentication) in other software:

• CVE-2022-24885 (2.0 Low, published 12 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-39254 (8.0 High, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2012-4456 (8.0 High, published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2014-0056 (published 6 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2000-1211 (8.0 High, published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2000-0483 (published 2 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-37298 (9.8 Critical, published 29 Jun 2026)
• CVE-2019-17134 (9.5 Critical, published 29 Jun 2026)

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