CVE-2022-38778 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

A flaw (CVE-2022-38900) was discovered in one of Kibana’s third party dependencies, that could allow an authenticated user to perform a request that crashes the Kibana server process.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Decode-uri-component Project	Decode-uri-component
Elastic	Kibana

Configuration 1 [-]

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No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-7-17-9-8-5-0-and-8-6-1-security-update/324661
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38778
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38778
https://www.elastic.co/community/security

History

Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published: 2023-02-08T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-25T14:20:49.608Z

Reserved: 2022-08-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-38778

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T11:02:14.627Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-08T21:15:10.583

Modified: 2025-03-25T15:15:15.250

Link: CVE-2022-38778

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-02-08T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-38778 - Bugzilla

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