CVE-2022-38340

Critical

Published: 20 September 2022

Published

20 September 2022

Modified

29 May 2025

KEV Added

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Patch

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CVSS Score v3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score 0.0082 74.8th percentile

Risk Priority 19 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-38340 is a critical-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Safe Fme Server. Its CVSS base score is 9.1 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 25.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Safe Software FME Server v2021.2.5, v2022.0.0.2 and below was discovered to contain a Path Traversal vulnerability via the component fmedataupload.

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

safe

fme server

≤ 2021.2.6 · 2022.0.0.0 — 2022.0.1

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-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.