Vulnerability in Nanohttpd

CVE-2022-21230

This affects all versions of package org.nanohttpd:nanohttpd. Whenever an HTTP Session is parsing the body of an HTTP request, the body of the request is written to a RandomAccessFile when the it is larger than 1024 bytes. This file is created with insecure permissions that allow its contents to be viewed by all users on the host machine. **Workaround:** Manually specifying the -Djava.io.tmpdir= argument when launching Java to set the temporary directory to a directory exclusively controlled by the current user can fix this issue.

EPSS: 0.003 (21.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

  • Nanohttpd
  • N/a Org.nanohttpd:nanohttpd — versions 0

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-21230?
CVE-2022-21230 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nanohttpd. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2022-05-01.
How severe is CVE-2022-21230?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.