What is CVE-2022-35925?

CVE-2022-35925 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bookwyrm-Social Bookwyrm, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-08-02.

How severe is CVE-2022-35925?

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

Auth bypass in Bookwyrm-Social Bookwyrm

CVE-2022-35925

BookWyrm is a social network for tracking reading. Versions prior to 0.4.5 were found to lack rate limiting on authentication views which allows brute-force attacks. This issue has been patched in version 0.4.5. Admins with existing instances will need to update their `nginx.conf` file that was created when the instance was set up. Users are advised advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade may update their nginx.conf files with the changes manually.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

Published 2022-08-02 · 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:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.017 (76.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 77th percentile — 76.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.017 · newest: 0.017 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Bookwyrm-Social Bookwyrm — versions < 0.4.5
Joinbookwyrm Bookwyrm

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/security/advisories/GHSA-jvp3-mqv8-5rjw (Third Party Advisory)
huntr.dev/bounties/ebee593d-3fd0-4985-bf5e-7e7927e08bf6/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
www.github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/commit/7bbe42fb30a79a26115524d18b697d89… (Patch, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-35925?: CVE-2022-35925 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Bookwyrm-Social Bookwyrm, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-08-02.
How severe is CVE-2022-35925?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.