Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-23620

Medium

Published: 09 February 2022

Published
09 February 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0031 54.4th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-23620 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Xwiki Xwiki. Its CVSS base score is 6.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 45.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

XWiki Platform is a generic wiki platform offering runtime services for applications built on top of it. In affected versions AbstractSxExportURLFactoryActionHandler#processSx does not escape anything from SSX document references when serializing it on filesystem, it is possible to for the…

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HTML export process to contain reference elements containing filesystem syntax like "../", "./". or "/" in general. The referenced elements are not properly escaped. This issue has been resolved in version 13.6-rc-1. This issue can be worked around by limiting or disabling document export.

CWE(s)
CWE-22CWE-116

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

xwiki
xwiki
≤ 13.6

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-116

Validating that output matches expected content directly mitigates failures to properly encode or escape data for its destination context.

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