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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-4899 json

zstd vulnerable to buffer overrun

published 2023-03-31 3 y ago modified 2026-06-23 4 mo ago also EUVD-2023-0287 , GHSA-5c9c-6x87-f9vm , PYSEC-2023-121

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A vulnerability was found in zstd v1.4.10, where an attacker can supply empty string as an argument to the command line tool to cause buffer overrun.

Patch / fix

  • swift github.com/facebook/zstd 1.5.4
  • pypi zstd 1.5.4.0
  • libzstd Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5.4+dfsg2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-4899

  • mecab RHEL 8 0.996-2.module+el8.9.0+21207+6c20cb3d
  • mysql RHEL 8 8.0.36-1.module+el8.9.0+21207+6c20cb3d
  • mysql-libs RHEL 8 8.0.36-1.module+el8.9.0+21207+6c20cb3d
  • mysql-test RHEL 8 8.0.36-1.module+el8.9.0+21207+6c20cb3d
  • mecab-ipadic RHEL 8 2.7.0.20070801-16.module+el8.9.0+21207+6c20cb3d
  • mysql-common RHEL 8 8.0.36-1.module+el8.9.0+21207+6c20cb3d
  • mysql-errmsg RHEL 8 8.0.36-1.module+el8.9.0+21207+6c20cb3d
  • mysql-server RHEL 8 8.0.36-1.module+el8.9.0+21207+6c20cb3d

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:0894RHSA-2024:1141RHSA-2024:2619

  • zstd SLE Real Time 15 SP3, SLE Micro 5.2, SLE Micro 5.1 1.4.4-150000.1.9.1
  • zstd SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP4, SLE Micro 5.4, SLE Micro 5.3 +2 more 1.5.0-150400.3.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:2074-1SUSE-SU-2023:1688-1

  • zstd openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.5.5-5.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:13613-1

  • mysql AlmaLinux 9 8.0.36-1.el9_3
  • mysql-libs AlmaLinux 9 8.0.36-1.el9_3
  • mysql-test AlmaLinux 9 8.0.36-1.el9_3
  • mysql-common AlmaLinux 9 8.0.36-1.el9_3
  • mysql-errmsg AlmaLinux 9 8.0.36-1.el9_3
  • mysql-server AlmaLinux 9 8.0.36-1.el9_3
  • mecab AlmaLinux 8 0.996-2.module_el8.6.0+3340+d764b636
  • mysql AlmaLinux 8 8.0.36-1.module_el8.9.0+3735+82bd6c11

almalinux advisories ALSA-2024:1141ALSA-2024:0894

  • mecab Rocky Linux 8 0.996-2.module+el8.10.0+1676+9b4b6e24
  • mecab Rocky Linux 8 0.996-2.module+el8.10.0+1937+28fbbc83
  • mysql Rocky Linux 8 8.0.36-1.module+el8.10.0+1676+9b4b6e24
  • mecab-ipadic Rocky Linux 8 2.7.0.20070801-16.module+el8.10.0+1676+9b4b6e24

rocky linux advisories RLSA-2024:0894

  • zstd CBL-Mariner 2.0 1.5.4-1

azure linux advisories AZL-25813

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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-2022-4899 updated cvss 7.5

zstd: mysql: buffer overrun in util.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 zstd, libzstd
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.7.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:3527
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 9) mysql-libs 8.0.36-1.el9_3, mysql-test 8.0.36-1.el9_3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:1141
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) mecab 0.996-2.module+el8.9.0+21207+6c20cb3d, mysql 8.0.36-1.module+el8.9.0+21207+6c20cb3d, mysql-libs 8.0.36-1.module+el8.9.0+21207+6c20cb3d, mysql-test 8.0.36-1.module+el8.9.0+21207+6c20cb3d, mysql-common 8.0.36-1.module+el8.9.0+21207+6c20cb3d, mysql-errmsg 8.0.36-1.module+el8.9.0+21207+6c20cb3d, +3 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:0894
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) mysql 8.0.36-1.el9_3, mysql-common 8.0.36-1.el9_3, mysql-errmsg 8.0.36-1.el9_3, mysql-server 8.0.36-1.el9_3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:1141
  • Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL Workstation(v. 7) rh-mysql80-mysql 8.0.36-1.el7, rh-mysql80-mysql-test 8.0.36-1.el7, rh-mysql80-mysql-common 8.0.36-1.el7, rh-mysql80-mysql-config 8.0.36-1.el7, rh-mysql80-mysql-errmsg 8.0.36-1.el7, rh-mysql80-mysql-server 8.0.36-1.el7, +4 more Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL(v. 7) rh-mysql80-mysql 8.0.36-1.el7, rh-mysql80-mysql-test 8.0.36-1.el7, rh-mysql80-mysql-common 8.0.36-1.el7, rh-mysql80-mysql-config 8.0.36-1.el7, rh-mysql80-mysql-errmsg 8.0.36-1.el7, rh-mysql80-mysql-server 8.0.36-1.el7, +4 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:2619
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 mysql, mysql-libs, mysql-test, mysql-bench, mysql-server, mysql-embedded Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 zstd, libzstd
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
20 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% 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: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
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

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
swift github.com/facebook/zstd
<1.5.4
1.5.4
pypi zstd
<1.5.4.0
1.5.4.0

Affected products

  • n/a zstd

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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