Is CVE-2022-22978 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2022-22978 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2022-22978?

CVE-2022-22978 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2022-22978?

CVE-2022-22978 has an EPSS score of 10.69% (95th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2022-22978?

Upgrade jenkins on rhel 8 to 0:2.387.3.1684911776-3.el8 or later. Fixes are available for 4 affected products.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2022-22978

CRITICALEPSS 95th pctl

9.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

In spring security versions prior to 5.4.11+, 5.5.7+ , 5.6.4+ and older unsupported versions, RegexRequestMatcher can easily be misconfigured to be bypassed on some servlet containers. Applications using RegexRequestMatcher with `.` in the regular expression are possibly vulnerable to an authorization bypass.

CWE-863Incorrect Authorization

How to fix

Remediation Available

jenkinsRed Hat / RHEL

Fixed in:0:2.387.3.1684911776-3.el8RHSA-2023:3299

jenkinsRocky

Fixed in:0:2.387.3.1684911776-3.el8RHSA-2023:3299

jenkins-2-pluginsRocky

Fixed in:0:4.13.1684911916-1.el8RHSA-2023:3299

jenkins-2-pluginsRed Hat / RHEL

Fixed in:0:4.13.1684911916-1.el8RHSA-2023:3299

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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

10.69%probability of exploitation in 30 days

95thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 95% of all known CVEs.

References

Other references1

spring.io

Related Vulnerabilities

Other CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization) vulnerabilities, ordered by exploit likelihood. View all

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CVE-2023-22518	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV + Ransom	Fix
CVE-2023-38035	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV + Ransom	-
CVE-2022-46169	Critical	9.8	100%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2024-38856	Critical	9.8	99%	KEV	Fix
CVE-2025-29927	Critical	9.1	99%	-	Fix
CVE-2020-36289	Medium	5.3	99%	-	Fix

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