Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-24979

Medium

Published: 19 February 2022

Published
19 February 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0023 45.5th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-24979 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) vulnerability in Mittwald Varnishcache. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 45.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in the Varnishcache extension before 2.0.1 for TYPO3. The Edge Site Includes (ESI) content element renderer component does not include an access check. This allows an unauthenticated user to render various content elements, resulting in insecure…

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direct object reference (IDOR), with the potential of exposing internal content elements.

CWE(s)
CWE-639

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

mittwald
varnishcache
≤ 2.0.1

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.

AC-24 Access Control Decisions
addresses: CWE-639

Per-request decision making makes it harder to bypass authorization using user-controlled keys without proper validation in the decision process.

AC-3 Access Enforcement
addresses: CWE-639

Consistent enforcement of approved authorizations makes bypassing via user-controlled keys ineffective.

References