Medium severity · published Feb 8, 2023
CVE-2022-38778
A flaw (CVE-2022-38900) was discovered in one of Kibana’s third party dependencies, that could allow an authenticated user to perform a request that crashes the Kibana server…
6.5
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A flaw (CVE-2022-38900) was discovered in one of Kibana’s third party dependencies, that could allow an authenticated user to perform a request that crashes the Kibana server process.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 59% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KI
kibana · Elastic
Versions 7.0.0 through 7.17.8 and 8.0.0 through 8.6.0 · source: vendor, NVD
DE
Decode-uri-component · Decode-uri-component Project
before 0.2.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38778
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38778
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-7-17-9-8-5-0-and-8-6-1-security-update/324661
Vendor Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
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