Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-24785

High

Published: 04 April 2022

Published
04 April 2022
Modified
03 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0202 84.1th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-24785 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Momentjs Moment. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 15.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Moment.js is a JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. A path traversal vulnerability impacts npm (server) users of Moment.js between versions 1.0.1 and 2.29.1, especially if a user-provided locale string is directly used to switch moment…

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locale. This problem is patched in 2.29.2, and the patch can be applied to all affected versions. As a workaround, sanitize the user-provided locale name before passing it to Moment.js.

CWE(s)
CWE-22CWE-27

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Affected Assets

momentjs
moment
1.0.1 — 2.29.2 · 1.0.1 — 2.29.2
tenable
tenable.sc
≤ 5.21.0
netapp
active iq
all versions
fedoraproject
fedora
35, 36
debian
debian linux
10.0

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.

References