Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-47951

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 26 January 2023

Published
26 January 2023
Modified
31 March 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 5.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0062 70.4th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-47951 is a medium-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Openstack Cinder. Its CVSS base score is 5.7 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 29.6% 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 OpenStack Cinder before 19.1.2, 20.x before 20.0.2, and 21.0.0; Glance before 23.0.1, 24.x before 24.1.1, and 25.0.0; and Nova before 24.1.2, 25.x before 25.0.2, and 26.0.0. By supplying a specially created VMDK flat image that…

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references a specific backing file path, an authenticated user may convince systems to return a copy of that file's contents from the server, resulting in unauthorized access to potentially sensitive data.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

openstack
cinder
≤ 19.1.2 · 20.0.0 — 20.0.2
openstack
glance
≤ 23.0.1 · 24.0.0 — 24.1.1
openstack
nova
≤ 24.1.2 · 25.0.0 — 25.0.2
debian
debian linux
10.0, 11.0

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-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References