QID 376620

Date Published: 2022-05-24

QID 376620: PowerShell Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability

PowerShell is a cross-platform task automation solution made up of a command-line shell, a scripting language, and a configuration management framework..

A denial of service and an information disclosure vulnerability exists in .NET 5.0, .NET 6.0 and .NET Core 3.1.

Affected Versions:
PowerShell Version 7.0 Prior to 7.0.11
PowerShell Version 7.2 Prior to 7.2.4

QID Detection Logic: (Authenticated)
Operating System: Windows and Linux
The QID checks for vulnerable version of file pwsh.exe and QID checks for vulnerable version of PowerShell Core by running command pwsh --version on linux systems.

NOTE: The Windows check will only work for msi installations.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to perform denial of service and information disclosure vulnerability on target machine.

CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.

CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5 severity.

Solution

Customers are advised to install the latest version of PowerShell which can be in the for more details

Vendor References

CVE-2022-23267 - msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-23267

CVEs related to QID 376620

CVE-2022-23267 |

Software Advisories

Advisory ID	Software	Component	Link
CVE-2022-23267			msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-23267

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