What is CVE-2022-41932?

CVE-2022-41932 is a high-severity vulnerability in Xwiki, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-11-23.

How severe is CVE-2022-41932?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Xwiki

CVE-2022-41932

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. It's possible to make XWiki create many new schemas and fill them with tables just by using a crafted user identifier in the login form. This may lead to degraded database performance. The problem has been patched in XWiki 13.10.8, 14.6RC1 and 14.4.2. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.005 (41.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Xwiki — versions 14.4.3, 14.4.4
Xwiki Xwiki-platform — versions < 13.10.8, >= 14.0.0, < 14.4.2, >= 14.5.0, < 14.6-rc-1

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

security-advisories@github.com (Third Party Advisory)
security-advisories@github.com (Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-41932?: CVE-2022-41932 is a high-severity vulnerability in Xwiki, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-11-23.
How severe is CVE-2022-41932?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.