CVE-2022-1517

3.2.1 EXECUTION WITH UNNECESSARY PRIVILEGES CWE-250

State: Published
Severity: 10.0 Critical
Published: Jun 24, 2022
Updated: Apr 16, 2025
Reserved: Apr 28, 2022

Description

LRM utilizes elevated privileges. An unauthenticated malicious actor can upload and execute code remotely at the operating system level, which can allow an attacker to change settings, configurations, software, or access sensitive data on the affected produc. An attacker could also exploit this vulnerability to access APIs not intended for general use and interact through the network.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	10.0 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	icscert

Weaknesses

CWE-250 cwe-250

Affected Products

Product	Versions
NextSeq 550DxIllumina	LRM Versions 1.3 to 3.1Affected
MiSeq DxIllumina	LRM Versions 1.3 to 3.1Affected
NextSeq 500 InstrumentIllumina	LRM Versions 1.3 to 3.1Affected
NextSeq 550 InstrumentIllumina	LRM Versions 1.3 to 3.1Affected
MiSeq InstrumentIllumina	LRM Versions 1.3 to 3.1Affected
iSeq 100 InstrumentIllumina	LRM Versions 1.3 to 3.1Affected
MiniSeq InstrumentIllumina	LRM Versions 1.3 to 3.1Affected

References

https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-153-02

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