CVE-2022-35739

Summary

• The severity of the vulnerability is low.
• The initial CVSS score communicated by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) was too high.
• We are currently working on fixing the vulnerability.
• For details, see CVE 2022-35739 PRTG Network Monitor CSS Injection — Raxis and NVD - CVE-2022-35739 (nist.gov).
• We will update this article as soon as new information is available.

Details

Researchers from Raxis published details for CVE-2022-35739. After executing our own investigation, we can confirm that PRTG is affected by CVE-2022-35739. Our conclusion aligns with Raxis’ suggesting that the severity of this vulnerability is low because it is difficult to exploit, and its impact is limited.

Early reports by the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) evaluated this vulnerability in an automatic way due to the lack of information resulting in a wrong severity calculation (High instead of Low). We have already contacted the BSI so that they adjust their CVSS scoring to depict the actual severity.

We are currently working on fixing this vulnerability.

For details about the issue, see CVE 2022-35739 PRTG Network Monitor CSS Injection — Raxis and NVD - CVE-2022-35739 (nist.gov).

We will update this article as soon as new information is available.