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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-38900 in the critical feed json

decode-uri-component vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)

published 2022-11-28 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-w573-4hg7-7wgq , EUVD-2022-7447

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
22.5%
EPSS 22.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

decode-uri-component 0.2.0 is vulnerable to Improper Input Validation resulting in DoS.

Patch / fix

  • npm decode-uri-component 0.2.1
  • npm RHEL 8 1:6.14.18-1.14.21.3.1.module+el8.7.0+18531+81d21ca6
  • nodejs RHEL 8 1:14.21.3-1.module+el8.7.0+18531+81d21ca6
  • nodejs-nodemon RHEL 8 2.0.20-3.module+el8.7.0+18531+81d21ca6
  • nodejs-full-i18n RHEL 8 1:14.21.3-1.module+el8.7.0+18531+81d21ca6
  • nodejs-packaging RHEL 8, RHEL 8.6 EUS, RHEL 8.4 EUS 23-3.module+el8.3.0+6519+9f98ed83
  • pcs RHEL 9 0.11.6-3.el9
  • pcs-snmp RHEL 9 0.11.6-3.el9
  • rh-nodejs14-nodejs RHEL 3 SOFTWARE_COLLECTIONS 14.21.3-2.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2023:1743RHSA-2023:1742RHSA-2023:1533RHSA-2023:6316RHSA-2023:1744

  • pcs AlmaLinux 9 0.11.6-3.el9
  • pcs-snmp AlmaLinux 9 0.11.6-3.el9
  • npm AlmaLinux 8 1:6.14.18-1.14.21.3.1.module_el8.7.0+3551+53700ee8
  • nodejs AlmaLinux 8 1:14.21.3-1.module_el8.7.0+3551+53700ee8
  • nodejs-nodemon AlmaLinux 8 2.0.20-3.module_el8.7.0+3551+53700ee8
  • nodejs-full-i18n AlmaLinux 8 1:14.21.3-1.module_el8.7.0+3551+53700ee8
  • nodejs-packaging AlmaLinux 8 23-3.module_el8.4.0+2522+3bd42762

almalinux advisories ALSA-2023:6316ALSA-2023:1743

  • nodejs Rocky Linux 8 1:14.21.3-1.module+el8.7.0+1183+c2c35f0a
  • nodejs-nodemon Rocky Linux 8 2.0.20-3.module+el8.7.0+1178+d52dba78
  • nodejs-packaging Rocky Linux 8 23-3.module+el8.7.0+1071+4bdda2a8

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2023:1743

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-2022-38900 updated cvss 7.5

decode-uri-component: improper input validation resulting in DoS

  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 6 mta/mta-ui-rhel8 Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization migration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-ui-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services odo Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1 servicemesh-grafana, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8 Red Hat A-MQ Online io.enmasse-enmasse io.enmasse-enmasse
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/console-rhel8
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 3 advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 aap-azure-ui Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2 io.apicurio-apicurio-registry io.apicurio-apicurio-registry Red Hat Discovery 1 discovery-server-container
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 pcs, pcs-snmp, 389-ds-base, cockpit-389-ds, python3-lib389, 389-ds-base-libs, +2 more
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 decode-uri-component
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 openshift3/ose-console Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-console Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/mcg-core-rhel8 Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/mcg-core-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS) rhods/odh-dashboard-rhel8, odh-minimal-notebook-container Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/dashboard-rhel8, devspaces-theia-rhel8-container
    +3 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2 rhosdt/jaeger-agent-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/console-plugin-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 container-native-virtualization/kubevirt-console-plugin
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Process Automation 7 org.uberfire-uberfire-parent org.uberfire-uberfire-parent
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
show 10 more
  • Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) nodejs 14.21.3-1.module+el8.7.0+18531+81d21ca6, nodejs-packaging 23-3.module+el8.3.0+6519+9f98ed83, nodejs-nodemon 2.0.20-3.module+el8.7.0+18531+81d21ca6, npm 6.14.18-1.14.21.3.1.module+el8.7.0+18531+81d21ca6, nodejs-full-i18n 14.21.3-1.module+el8.7.0+18531+81d21ca6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1743
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4) nodejs 14.21.3-1.module+el8.4.0+18317+43f5ac16, nodejs-packaging 23-3.module+el8.3.0+6519+9f98ed83, nodejs-nodemon 2.0.20-3.module+el8.4.0+18317+43f5ac16, npm 6.14.18-1.14.21.3.1.module+el8.4.0+18317+43f5ac16, nodejs-full-i18n 14.21.3-1.module+el8.4.0+18317+43f5ac16
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1533
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) nodejs 14.21.3-1.module+el8.6.0+18532+cbe6f646, nodejs-packaging 23-3.module+el8.3.0+6519+9f98ed83, nodejs-nodemon 2.0.20-3.module+el8.6.0+18532+cbe6f646, npm 6.14.18-1.14.21.3.1.module+el8.6.0+18532+cbe6f646, nodejs-full-i18n 14.21.3-1.module+el8.6.0+18532+cbe6f646
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1742
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (v. 9) pcs 0.11.6-3.el9, pcs-snmp 0.11.6-3.el9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (v. 9) pcs 0.11.6-3.el9, pcs-snmp 0.11.6-3.el9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:6316
  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit 1.7 rhmtc/openshift-migration-ui-rhel8 v1.7.8-5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1428
  • Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL Workstation(v. 7) rh-nodejs14 3.6-2.el7, rh-nodejs14-runtime 3.6-2.el7, rh-nodejs14-scldevel 3.6-2.el7, rh-nodejs14-nodejs 14.21.3-2.el7, rh-nodejs14-npm 6.14.18-14.21.3.2.el7, rh-nodejs14-nodejs-full-i18n 14.21.3-2.el7 Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL(v. 7) rh-nodejs14 3.6-2.el7, rh-nodejs14-runtime 3.6-2.el7, rh-nodejs14-scldevel 3.6-2.el7, rh-nodejs14-nodejs 14.21.3-2.el7, rh-nodejs14-npm 6.14.18-14.21.3.2.el7, rh-nodejs14-nodejs-full-i18n 14.21.3-2.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1744
  • Red Hat RHODF 4.13 for RHEL 9 odf4/odf-console-rhel9 v4.13.0-85
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3742
  • Red Hat RHPAM 7.13.4 async
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:4983
  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1 servicemesh-prometheus Red Hat Data Grid 8 decode-uri-component Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 cockpit, grafana, cockpit-ws, cockpit-pcp, grafana-loki, grafana-mssql, +18 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

10 more not affected in the full advisory

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
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

22.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/SamVerschueren/decode-uri-component/issues/5 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/sindresorhus/query-string/issues/345 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm decode-uri-component
<0.2.1
0.2.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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