CVE-2022-33182: Broadcom Fabric Operating System

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A privilege escalation vulnerability in Brocade Fabric OS CLI before Brocade Fabric OS v9.1.0, 9.0.1e, 8.2.3c, 8.2.0cbn5, could allow a local authenticated user to escalate its privilege to root using switch commands “supportlink”, “firmwaredownload”, “portcfgupload, license, and “fosexec”.

Affected products

• Broadcom Fabric Operating System: from 8.0.0, before 8.2.3c (fixed in 8.2.3c); from 9.0.0, before 9.0.1e (fixed in 9.0.1e)

Published 2022-10-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.