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medium 5.3

CVE-2022-38648 json

PDFTranscoder does not block external resources

published 2022-09-22 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-53jm-3hc9-fqqc , EUVD-2022-6702

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Batik of Apache XML Graphics allows an attacker to fetch external resources. This issue affects Apache XML Graphics Batik 1.14.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.xmlgraphics:batik 1.15
  • maven org.apache.xmlgraphics:batik-bridge 1.15
  • batik Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.15+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38648

  • batik Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1.10-2~18.04.1
  • batik Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 1.12-1ubuntu0.1
  • batik Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 1.14-1ubuntu0.2
  • batik Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1.7.ubuntu-8ubuntu2.14.04.3+esm1
  • batik Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.8-3ubuntu1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38648

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • xmlgraphics-batik SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP5 1.17-2.7.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:0777-1

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-2022-38648 updated cvss 5.3

batik: Server-Side Request Forgery

  • Red Hat build of Quarkus batik
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7 batik
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 batik
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1 batik
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 batik Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 batik Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 batik Red Hat Process Automation 7 batik
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.12
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3954
  • Red Hat RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.20.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:2100

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

2.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.xmlgraphics:batik
<1.15
1.15
maven org.apache.xmlgraphics:batik-bridge
<1.15
1.15

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache XML Graphics

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-918 Server-Side Request Forgery

References

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.