Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-34621

Medium

Published: 19 August 2022

Published
19 August 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0039 60.3th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-34621 is a medium-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) vulnerability in Mealie Mealie. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 39.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Mealie 1.0.0beta3 was discovered to contain an Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability which allows attackers to modify user passwords and other attributes via modification of the user_id parameter.

CWE(s)
CWE-639

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

mealie
mealie
0.5.5, 1.0.0

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.

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