CVE-2022-45639

CRITICALNVD 7.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2023-01-24. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8; sources differ by 2.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 4.7%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

OS Command injection vulnerability in sleuthkit fls tool 4.11.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted value to the m parameter. NOTE: third parties have disputed this because there is no analysis showing that the backtick command executes outside the context of the user account that entered the command line.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
60
EG Risk 60/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation40% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 3 (Elevated): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
4.7%
EPSS %ILE
91st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
4.7% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-23). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

January 24, 2023

Last Modified

April 2, 2025

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Oct 13, 2026
Patch available.
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 27× in last 7d / 63× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 97 of 220 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 3 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 123 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-24 01:49 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-24 01:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v833-mfjc-7qr5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-23 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
  4. 2026-10-23 01:59 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-23 01:59 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-23 01:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v833-mfjc-7qr5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-22 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
  8. 2026-10-22 02:08 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-22 02:08 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-22 02:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v833-mfjc-7qr5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
  12. 2026-10-21 02:16 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-21 02:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v833-mfjc-7qr5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  14. 2026-10-20 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
  15. 2026-10-20 02:22 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-20 02:22 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-20 02:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v833-mfjc-7qr5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-10-19 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
  19. 2026-10-19 01:43 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-19 01:43 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-19 01:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v833-mfjc-7qr5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
  23. 2026-10-18 08:23 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-18 01:53 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-18 01:53 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-18 01:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v833-mfjc-7qr5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  2. 2026-10-17 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
  3. 2026-10-17 02:01 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-17 02:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v833-mfjc-7qr5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-10-16 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
  6. 2026-10-16 02:11 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-16 02:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v833-mfjc-7qr5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-10-15 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
  9. 2026-10-14 22:02 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-14 22:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v833-mfjc-7qr5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-10-14 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
  12. 2026-10-13 17:45 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-13 17:45 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-13 17:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v833-mfjc-7qr5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-13 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
  16. 2026-10-12 17:54 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-12 17:54 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-12 17:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-v833-mfjc-7qr5 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-12 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
  20. 2026-10-11 22:08 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-11 13:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
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  39. 2026-09-23 23:36 UTCOSV refresh
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  52. 2026-09-04 17:54 UTCOSV refresh
  53. 2026-09-04 13:57 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.7% · 91st percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-51225
    Published Apr 3, 2023

    sleuthkit 4.11.1 - Command Injection

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2022-45639?
CVE-2022-45639 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on January 24, 2023. OS Command injection vulnerability in sleuthkit fls tool 4.11.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted value to the m parameter. NOTE: third parties have disputed this because there is no analysis showing that the backtick command executes outside the context of the user…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2022-45639 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2022-45639 was published on January 24, 2023. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 2, 2025; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2022-45639 actively exploited?
CVE-2022-45639 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (91st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-45639?
CVE-2022-45639 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).
How do I remediate CVE-2022-45639?
A fix for CVE-2022-45639 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2022-45639 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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