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CVE-2022-4244 Published on September 25, 2023

Codehaus-plexus: directory traversal
A flaw was found in codeplex-codehaus. A directory traversal attack (also known as path traversal) aims to access files and directories stored outside the intended folder. By manipulating files with "dot-dot-slash (../)" sequences and their variations or by using absolute file paths, it may be possible to access arbitrary files and directories stored on the file system, including application source code, configuration, and other critical system files.

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Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2022-4244 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. An automatable proof of concept (POC) exploit exists. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity and availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
NONE
Availability Impact:
NONE

Timeline

Reported to Red Hat.

Made public.

Weakness Type

What is a Directory traversal Vulnerability?

The software uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the software does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.

CVE-2022-4244 has been classified to as a Directory traversal vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2022-4244

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Codehaus Plexusproject Codehaus Plexus
 
Red Hat Integration Camel K
 
Codehaus Plexus Plexus Utils
 

Affected Versions

Red Hat RHINT Camel-K-1.10.1: Red Hat RHPAM 7.13.1 async: Red Hat A-MQ Clients 2: Red Hat A-MQ Online: Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot: Red Hat build of Quarkus: Red Hat Data Grid 8: Red Hat Decision Manager 7: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus: Red Hat Integration Change Data Capture: Red Hat Integration Service Registry: Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 7: Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack: Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6: Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7: Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3: Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5: Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes: Red Hat Process Automation 7: Red Hat Single Sign-On 7: Red Hat Software Collections: Red Hat Software Collections: Red Hat Software Collections: Red Hat Software Collections: Red Hat Software Collections: Red Hat Software Collections: Red Hat Software Collections: Red Hat Software Collections: Red Hat Software Collections: Red Hat Software Collections: Red Hat Software Collections: Red Hat Software Collections: Red Hat support for Spring Boot:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.27%
Percentile
49.82%

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