Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-45133

Medium

Published: 22 August 2025

Published
22 August 2025
Modified
05 September 2025
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:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0032 55.3th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-45133 is a medium-severity Path Traversal: '/dir/../filename' (CWE-26) vulnerability in Mahara Mahara. Its CVSS base score is 6.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 44.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Mahara 21.10 before 21.10.6, 22.04 before 22.04.4, and 22.10 before 22.10.1 allows unsafe font upload for skins. A particularly structured XML file could allow one to traverse the server to obtain access to secure files or cause code execution based…

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on the payload.

CWE(s)
CWE-26

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

mahara
mahara
21.10.0 — 21.10.6 · 22.04.0 — 22.04.4 · 22.10.0 — 22.10.1

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References