Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-32549

Medium

Published: 22 June 2022

Published
22 June 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0286 86.6th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-32549 is a medium-severity Improper Output Neutralization for Logs (CWE-117) vulnerability in Apache Sling Api. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 13.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Apache Sling Commons Log <= 5.4.0 and Apache Sling API <= 2.25.0 are vulnerable to log injection. The ability to forge logs may allow an attacker to cover tracks by injecting fake logs and potentially corrupt log files.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

apache
sling api
≤ 2.25.0
apache
sling commons log
≤ 5.4.0

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.

addresses: CWE-116 CWE-117

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

addresses: CWE-117

Policy and procedures require sanitization and neutralization when generating audit logs to avoid injection issues.

References