CVE-2022-48308
Published: 16 February 2023
Summary
CVE-2022-48308 is a medium-severity Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch (CWE-297) vulnerability in Palantir Sls-Logging. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 27.5th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-51008
Vulnerability details
It was discovered that the sls-logging was not verifying hostnames in TLS certificates due to a misuse of the javax.net.ssl.SSLSocketFactory API. A malicious attacker in a privileged network position could abuse this to perform a man-in-the-middle attack. A successful man-in-the-middle…
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attack would allow them to intercept, read, or modify network communications to and from the affected service.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
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.
Mandates approved trust anchors and issuance policies, directly preventing acceptance of unvalidated or untrusted certificates.
When certificates are used to establish component provenance, the control requires correct certificate validation procedures.
Correct system time is required for proper enforcement of certificate notBefore/notAfter dates and time-based revocation checks.