CVE-2022-45778 — https://www

https://www.hillstonenet.com.cn/ Hillstone Firewall SG-6000 <= 5.0.4.0 is vulnerable to Incorrect Access Control. There is a permission bypass vulnerability in the Hillstone WEB application firewall. An attacker can enter the background of the firewall with super administrator

01What is this vulnerability?

https://www.hillstonenet.com.cn/ Hillstone Firewall SG-6000 <= 5.0.4.0 is vulnerable to Incorrect Access Control. There is a permission bypass vulnerability in the Hillstone WEB application firewall. An attacker can enter the background of the firewall with super administrator privileges through a configuration error in report.m.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-12-27T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-14T12:56:50.618Z

09References

• gist.github.com — https://gist.github.com/yinfei6/6ffff06db3f7d4c24de2f784c0db10df