Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-25847

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 26 January 2023

Published
26 January 2023
Modified
01 April 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0023 46.5th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-25847 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Serve-Lite Project Serve-Lite. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 46.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

All versions of the package serve-lite are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) because when it detects a request to a directory, it renders a file listing of all of its contents with links that include the actual file names without…

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any sanitization or output encoding.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

serve-lite project
serve-lite
all versions

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.

addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

References