What is CVE-2022-21282?

CVE-2022-21282 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NetApp 7-Mode Transition Tool, classified under Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (XXE). CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-01-19.

How severe is CVE-2022-21282?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Is CVE-2022-21282 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XXE in NetApp 7-Mode Transition Tool

CVE-2022-21282

Vulnerability in the Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE (component: JAXP). Supported versions that are affected are Oracle Java SE: 7u321, 8u311, 11.0.13, 17.0.1; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.4 and 21.3.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition. Successful attacks of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized read access to a subset of Oracle Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition accessible data. Note: This vulnerability applies to Java deployments, typically in clients running sandboxed Java Web Start applications or sandboxed Java applets, that load and run untrusted code (e.g., code that comes from the internet) and rely on the Java sandbox for security. This vulnerability can also be exploited by using APIs in the specified Component, e.g., through a web service which supplies data to the APIs. CVSS 3.1 Base Score 5.3 (Confidentiality impacts). CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N).

Vulnerability class: XXE (XML External Entity)

Published 2022-01-19 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.029 (86.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 86.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.029 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-611 — Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (XXE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cvemon

References

www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html (Vendor Advisory)
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220121-0007/ (Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5057 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5058 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/02/msg00011.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/202209-05 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-21282?: CVE-2022-21282 is a medium-severity vulnerability in NetApp 7-Mode Transition Tool, classified under Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference (XXE). CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-01-19.
How severe is CVE-2022-21282?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-21282 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.