CVE-2022-23748: Dante Discovery Process Control Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Name

Dante Discovery Process Control Vulnerability

Vendor

Audinate

Product

Dante Discovery

Added to the catalog

2025-02-06

Due date for US federal agencies

2025-02-27

Weaknesses

CWE-114

Catalog version

2026.10.30

Dante Discovery contains a process control vulnerability in mDNSResponder.exe that all allows for a DLL sideloading attack. A local attacker can leverage this vulnerability in the Dante Application Library to execute arbitrary code.

Required action (CISA)

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Ransomware use: CISA does not mark known use of this vulnerability in ransomware campaigns.

Links in CISA's notes

• https://www.getdante.com/support/faq/audinate-response-to-dante-discovery-mdnsresponder-exe-security-issue-cve-2022-23748/
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23748

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NVD analysis

Status

Analyzed

Published

2022-11-17T23:15:14.383

Last modified

2026-06-17T04:30:45.160

Weaknesses

CWE-114, CWE-426

mDNSResponder.exe is vulnerable to DLL Sideloading attack. Executable improperly specifies how to load the DLL, from which folder and under what conditions. In these scenarios, a malicious attacker could be using the valid and legitimate executable to load malicious files.

References

• https://cpr-zero.checkpoint.com/vulns/cprid-2193/%2C (Broken Link)
• https://www.audinate.com/learning/faqs/audinate-response-to-dante-discovery-mdnsresponder-exe-security-issue-cve-2022-23748 (Vendor Advisory)
• https://cpr-zero.checkpoint.com/vulns/cprid-2193/%2C (Broken Link)
• https://www.audinate.com/learning/faqs/audinate-response-to-dante-discovery-mdnsresponder-exe-security-issue-cve-2022-23748 (Vendor Advisory)
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-23748 (US Government Resource)

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CVE record

Assigner

checkpoint

State

PUBLISHED

Published

2022-11-17T00:00:00.000Z

Updated

2025-10-21T23:15:31.225Z

Problem types

CWE-114: Process Control

mDNSResponder.exe is vulnerable to DLL Sideloading attack. Executable improperly specifies how to load the DLL, from which folder and under what conditions. In these scenarios, a malicious attacker could be using the valid and legitimate executable to load malicious files.

References

• https://cpr-zero.checkpoint.com/vulns/cprid-2193/%2C
• https://www.audinate.com/learning/faqs/audinate-response-to-dante-discovery-mdnsresponder-exe-security-issue-cve-2022-23748

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Defensive techniques (MITRE D3FEND)

D3FEND maps these defensive techniques to the weakness (CWE) that NVD lists for this CVE, through the digital artifacts the weakness affects. D3FEND does not say they stop this vulnerability.

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