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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2022-0686 json

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in unshiftio/url-parse

published 2022-02-20 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-hgjh-723h-mx2j , EUVD-2022-1044

cvss
6.5
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in NPM url-parse prior to 1.5.8.

Patch / fix

  • npm url-parse 1.5.8
  • unshiftio unshiftio/url-parse 1.5.8
  • node-url-parse Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5.9+~1.4.8-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-0686

  • node-url-parse Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1.2.0-1ubuntu0.1
  • node-url-parse Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1.4.7-3ubuntu0.1
  • node-url-parse Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.0.5-2ubuntu0.1~esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-0686

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-0686 updated cvss 9.1

npm-url-parse: Authorization bypass through user-controlled key

  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0 servicemesh-grafana, servicemesh-prometheus, servicemesh-grafana-prometheus
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1 servicemesh-grafana, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 url-parse
    under investigation
  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit 1.7 rhmtc/openshift-migration-ui-rhel8 v1.7.4-12
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:6429
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1 servicemesh-prometheus Red Hat Migration Toolkit 1.7 rhmtc/openshift-velero-plugin-rhel8 v1.7.4-6, rhmtc/openshift-migration-velero-rhel8 v1.7.4-6, rhmtc/openshift-migration-openvpn-rhel8 v1.7.4-7, rhmtc/openshift-migration-registry-rhel8 v1.7.4-7, rhmtc/openshift-migration-rhel8-operator v1.7.4-15, rhmtc/openshift-migration-controller-rhel8 v1.7.4-7, +10 more Red Hat Virtualization 4 url-parse
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

1.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • huntr.dev https://huntr.dev/bounties/55fd06cd-9054-4d80-83be-eb5a454be78c referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 6.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm url-parse
<1.5.8
1.5.8

Affected products

  • unshiftio unshiftio/url-parse

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

References

Sources

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