# CVE-2022-43997: Incorrect access control in Aternity agent in Riverbed Aternity before 12.1.4.27 allows for local privilege escalation.

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2023-01-25 · Updated: 2025-04-01

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Incorrect access control in Aternity agent in Riverbed Aternity before 12.1.4.27 allows for local privilege escalation. There is an insufficiently protected handle to the A180AG.exe SYSTEM process with PROCESS_ALL_ACCESS rights.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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

## References

- https://winternl.com/cve-2022-43997/
- https://gist.github.com/jackullrich/21fcfe75aeb5e18c60b80e684b83d741

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