Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-45927

HighPublic PoC

Published: 18 January 2023

Published
18 January 2023
Modified
04 April 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0124 79.7th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-45927 is a high-severity Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) vulnerability in Opentext Opentext Extended Ecm. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 20.3% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue was discovered in OpenText Content Suite Platform 22.1 (16.2.19.1803). The Java application server can be used to bypass the authentication of the QDS endpoints of the Content Server. These endpoints can be used to create objects and execute…

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arbitrary code.

CWE(s)
CWE-639

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

opentext
opentext extended ecm
20.4 — 22.4

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