Honeywell SoftMaster Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

published 2022-09-16 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-34601

cvss: 6.2; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.2%; EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 8%
public exploits: 0; none known

A local unprivileged attacker may escalate to administrator privileges in Honeywell SoftMaster version 4.51, due to insecure permission assignment.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-22-256-02 updated 2022-09-13 cvss 6.2

Honeywell SoftMaster

Honeywell SoftMaster 4.51
affected: mitigation “Update firmware of vulnerable and affected devices.” mywebtech.honeywell.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 18 mo ago (2025-04-16)

Exploit prediction

0.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 8% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.2	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Honeywell SoftMaster

Classification

Weakness

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

cisa.gov /uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-256-02
third-party-advisory, us-government-resource
security.honeywell.com /-/media/Security/Resources/PDF/Product-Warranty/Security_Notification_SN_2019-09-13-02_V4-pdf.pdf
not-applicable

Sources

CVE List CVE-2022-2332
NVD CVE-2022-2332

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Summary