What is CVE-2022-29556?

CVE-2022-29556 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Northern.tech Mender, classified under Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-04-28.

How severe is CVE-2022-29556?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

SSRF in Northern.tech Mender

CVE-2022-29556

The iot-manager microservice 1.0.0 in Northern.tech Mender Enterprise before 3.2.2 allows SSRF because the Azure IoT Hub integration provides several SSRF primitives that can execute cross-tenant actions via internal API endpoints.

Vulnerability class: SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery)

Published 2022-04-28 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (62.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 62nd percentile — 62.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Northern.tech Mender — versions 3.2.0, 3.2.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-918 — Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

References

northern.tech (Vendor Advisory)
mender.io/blog/cve-2022-29555-and-cve-2022-29556-vulnerabilities-in-iot-manager… (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-29556?: CVE-2022-29556 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Northern.tech Mender, classified under Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2022-04-28.
How severe is CVE-2022-29556?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.