Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-27820

Medium

Published: 24 March 2022

Published
24 March 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0014 33.3th percentile
Risk Priority 8 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-27820 is a medium-severity Improper Certificate Validation (CWE-295) vulnerability in Owasp Zed Attack Proxy. Its CVSS base score is 4.0 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked at the 33.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) through w2022-03-21 does not verify the TLS certificate chain of an HTTPS server.

CWE(s)
CWE-295

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

owasp
zed attack proxy
≤ w2022-03-21

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.

SA-19 Component Authenticity
addresses: CWE-295

When certificates are used to establish component provenance, the control requires correct certificate validation procedures.

SC-17 Public Key Infrastructure Certificates
addresses: CWE-295

Mandates approved trust anchors and issuance policies, directly preventing acceptance of unvalidated or untrusted certificates.

SC-45 System Time Synchronization
addresses: CWE-295

Correct system time is required for proper enforcement of certificate notBefore/notAfter dates and time-based revocation checks.

References