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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-37866 json

Apache Ivy allows path traversal in the presence of a malicious repository

published 2022-11-07 4 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-wv7w-rj2x-556x , EUVD-2022-7457

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

When Apache Ivy downloads artifacts from a repository it stores them in the local file system based on a user-supplied "pattern" that may include placeholders for artifacts coordinates like the organisation, module or version. If said coordinates contain "../" sequences - which are valid characters for Ivy coordinates in general - it is possible the artifacts are stored outside of Ivy's local cache or repository or can overwrite different artifacts inside of the local cache. In order to exploit this vulnerability an attacker needs collaboration by the remote repository as Ivy will issue http requests containing ".." sequences and a "normal" repository will not interpret them as part of the artifact coordinates. Users of Apache Ivy 2.0.0 to 2.5.1 should upgrade to Ivy 2.5.1.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.ivy:ivy 2.5.1
  • apache ivy 2.5.1
  • apache-ivy openSUSE Tumbleweed 2.5.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:12506-1

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-2022-37866 updated cvss 7.5

Ivy: Ivy Path traversal

  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 6 apache-ivy Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Runtimes org.freemarker-freemarker-2.3.31.redhat_00001-1 Red Hat Data Grid 8 apache-ivy
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 apache-ivy, apache-ivy-javadoc
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 apache-ivy
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 apache-ivy
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1 apache-ivy
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 apache-ivy Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 apache-ivy
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack apache-ivy
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Software Collections rh-maven36-apache-ivy, rh-maven36-apache-ivy-javadoc
    affected: no fix available
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  • Red Hat RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.20.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:2100
  • Red Hat A-MQ Clients 2 apache-ivy Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 apache-ivy Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes apache-ivy Red Hat Satellite 6 apache-ivy Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 apache-ivy
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

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

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.ivy:ivy
>=2.0.0, <2.5.1
2.5.1

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Ivy

Classification

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

References

Sources

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