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medium 5.3

CVE-2022-32549 json

log injection in Sling logging

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-qmx3-m648-hr74 , EUVD-2022-6134

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

Apache Sling Commons Log <= 5.4.0 and Apache Sling API <= 2.25.0 are vulnerable to log injection. The ability to forge logs may allow an attacker to cover tracks by injecting fake logs and potentially corrupt log files.

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red hat product security vex CVE-2022-32549 updated cvss 5.3

Sling: log injection in Sling logging

  • Red Hat Integration Data Virtualisation Operator org.apache.sling org.apache.sling Red Hat Integration Service Registry org.apache.sling org.apache.sling Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 org.apache.sling org.apache.sling
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Data Grid 8 org.apache.sling org.apache.sling Red Hat Fuse 7 org.apache.sling org.apache.sling Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 org.apache.sling org.apache.sling Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 org.apache.sling org.apache.sling Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack org.apache.sling org.apache.sling
    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

Exploit prediction

2.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

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:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.commons.log
<=5.4.0
 no fix listed
maven org.apache.sling:org.apache.sling.api
<=2.25.0
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Sling

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-117 Improper Output Neutralization for Logs
  • CWE-116 Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

References

Sources

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