CVE-2022-35405: Zoho ManageEngine Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Name: Zoho ManageEngine Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Zoho
Product: ManageEngine
Added to the catalog: 2022-09-22
Due date for US federal agencies: 2022-10-13
Weaknesses: CWE-502
Catalog version: 2026.10.30

Zoho ManageEngine PAM360, Password Manager Pro, and Access Manager Plus contain an unspecified vulnerability that allows for remote code execution.

Required action (CISA)

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

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

Links in CISA's notes

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NVD analysis

Status: Analyzed
Published: 2022-07-19T15:15:08.680
Last modified: 2026-06-17T04:51:46.637
Weaknesses: CWE-502

Zoho ManageEngine Password Manager Pro before 12101 and PAM360 before 5510 are vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution. (This also affects ManageEngine Access Manager Plus before 4303 with authentication.)

Metric	Score	Severity	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	9.8	CRITICAL	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	[email protected] (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	9.8	CRITICAL	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167918/Zoho-Password-Manager-Pro-XML-RPC-Java-Deserialization.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://www.manageengine.com/products/passwordmanagerpro/advisory/cve-2022-35405.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167918/Zoho-Password-Manager-Pro-XML-RPC-Java-Deserialization.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://www.manageengine.com/products/passwordmanagerpro/advisory/cve-2022-35405.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-35405 (US Government Resource)

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CVE record

Assigner: mitre
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2022-07-19T14:51:47.000Z
Updated: 2025-10-21T23:15:38.007Z
Problem types: n/a

References

https://www.manageengine.com/products/passwordmanagerpro/advisory/cve-2022-35405.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167918/Zoho-Password-Manager-Pro-XML-RPC-Java-Deserialization.html

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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.

CWE-502: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

Harden: Software Update (acts on Software)
Harden: Trusted Library (acts on Subroutine)
Model: Software Inventory (acts on Software)
Model: Asset Vulnerability Enumeration (acts on Software)
Harden: Domain Logic Validation (acts on Subroutine)
Harden: Variable Initialization (acts on Subroutine)
Harden: Credential Scrubbing (acts on Subroutine)
Restore: Restore Software (acts on Software)
Isolate: Application-based Process Isolation (acts on Subroutine)

D3FEND ontology version 1.6.0.

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Cite this page

Dragons Eye Ransomware Tracker, "CVE-2022-35405: Zoho ManageEngine Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Vulnerability",
entity page, dataset version ref-1218f676e604, updated 2026-11-02T23:39:54.475Z,
https://ransomware-tracker.com/cve/CVE-2022-35405 (accessed 2026-11-03).
Underlying source: CISA Catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, version 2026.10.30.
Underlying source: National Vulnerability Database (NIST), CVE API 2.0, record last modified 2026-06-17T04:51:46.637.
Underlying source: CVE List (CVE Program, The MITRE Corporation), record updated 2025-10-21T23:15:38.007Z.
Underlying source: MITRE D3FEND, ontology version 1.6.0.

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