Path Traversal in Payara

published 2022-08-18 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-h28c-453m-h9xm , EUVD-2022-6560

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.2%; EPSS 1.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 68%
public exploits: 0; none known

Payara through 5.2022.2 allows directory traversal without authentication. This affects Payara Server, Payara Micro, and Payara Server Embedded.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2

maven fish.payara.api:payara-bom 5.2022.3
payara payara 4.1.2.191.36, 5.42.0, 5.2022.3

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-2022-37422 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 7.5

payara: directory traversal without authentication

Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 payara payara
affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 68% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
GitHub	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	fish.payara.api:payara-bom	<5.2022.3	5.2022.3

Classification

Weakness

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

blog.payara.fish /august-community-5-release
web, release-notes, vendor-advisory
payara.fish /downloads/
product
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37422
advisory

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary