Vulnerability · Published Sep 15, 2022 · Assigned by zdi
CVE-2022-40661
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-severity heap buffer overflow in NIS-Elements Viewer from NIKON. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.9% (higher than 61% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of NIKON NIS-Elements Viewer 1.2100.1483.0. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of BMP images. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-15134.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| NIKON | NIS-Elements Viewer | 1.2100.1483.0 |
Weakness: CWE-122 · Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H