CVE-2022-3859

mediumpriority · track · 27EPSS 0.002 · 11 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.21% (11th) EPSS

CVSS 6.7 · medium

Is it mine?

2 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-29

An uncontrolled search path vulnerability exists in Trellix Agent (TA) for Windows in versions prior to 5.7.8. This allows an attacker with admin access, which is required to place the DLL in the restricted Windows System folder, to elevate their privileges to System by placing a malicious DLL there.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.7

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 0.8 · impact 5.9

v3.16.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.7mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · trellixpsirt@trellix.comexploitability 0.8 · impact 5.9

v3.16.1mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-427USprimary

affected products (2)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Trellix Trellix Agent≤ 5.x ≤5.7.8enisa_euvdEU
trellix agent< 5.7.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:trellix:agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2022-2200Trellix Agent: Schwachstelle ermöglicht PrivilegieneskalationDeutsch2022-11-29csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Trellix Agent ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-11-30modified 2026-06-17

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references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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