Vulnerability · CVE-2022-23748
Dante Discovery Process Control Vulnerability
Published Nov 17, 2022 · catalog updated Jun 16, 2026 · Audinate Dante Discovery
Patch now
CVE-2022-23748 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog, due Feb 27, 2025. Confirm Audinate Dante Discovery against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.
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- No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
- Severity
- High7.8
- Known exploitation
- CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 8.33%
- Remediation
- Remediation guidance
- Affected products
- cpe audinate/dante application library · vendor Audinate Dante Discovery
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.
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- cpe audinate/dante application libraryversion unspecified
- vendor Audinate Dante Discoveryversion unspecified
How to fix CVE-2022-23748
Recommended remediation
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. CISA due date Feb 27, 2025.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
CVE-2022-23748 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog, due Feb 27, 2025. Confirm Audinate Dante Discovery against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.
Which versions are affected?
Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
What should an analyst verify?
CWE-114; CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path. EPSS 8.33%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
Code
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Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Nov 17, 2022 · Catalog
Detected
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.
Feb 6, 2025 · CISA KEV
Known exploited
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Feb 27, 2025 · CISA KEV
Remediation due
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Jun 16, 2026 · Catalog
Updated
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.
Sources
- CISA KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2022-23748
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.
cisa.gov - CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2022-23748
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2022-23748
30-day exploitation probability 8.3%
first.org - NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2022-23748
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.
nvd.nist.gov - VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2022-23748
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.
vulncheck.com
References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Oct 17, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.