Medium severity · published Sep 12, 2022
CVE-2022-38299
An issue in the Elasticsearch plugin of Appsmith v1.7.11 allows attackers to connect disallowed hosts to the AWS/GCP internal metadata endpoint
4.3
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue in the Elasticsearch plugin of Appsmith v1.7.11 allows attackers to connect disallowed hosts to the AWS/GCP internal metadata endpoint.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 47% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AP
Appsmith · Appsmith
1.7.11 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38299
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38299
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/appsmithorg/appsmith/pull/15834
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