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CVE-2022-23181: Local privilege escalation with FileStore

Modified
AliasesSUSE-SU-2022:0694-1SUSE-SU-2022:0695-1SUSE-SU-2022:0784-1
Published 27-01-2022Last modified 03-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-23181 is a high (CVSS 7.0) vulnerability in apache software foundation apache tomcat. EPSS estimates a 0.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 52.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Routine

Not severe (CVSS 7, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.0/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.69%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 3
DLA-3160-1DSA-5265-1MGASA-2023-0138OPENSUSE-SU-2024:13441-1RHSA-2022:7272SUSE-SU-2026:1058-1

Timeline

  1. 27-01-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The fix for bug CVE-2020-9484 introduced a time of check, time of use vulnerability into Apache Tomcat 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0-M8, 10.0.0-M5 to 10.0.14, 9.0.35 to 9.0.56 and 8.5.55 to 8.5.73 that allowed a local attacker to perform actions with the privileges of the user that the Tomcat process is using. This issue is only exploitable when Tomcat is configured to persist sessions using the FileStore.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.69%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

53%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.69% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: local access, low-privilege account, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Suse36 products
  • javapackages-tools&distro=HPE Helion OpenStack 8< 5.3.1-14.5.1
  • javapackages-tools&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP4-LTSS< 5.3.1-14.5.1
  • javapackages-tools&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5< 5.3.1-14.5.1
  • javapackages-tools&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP4< 5.3.1-14.5.1
  • javapackages-tools&distro=SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5< 5.3.1-14.5.1
Oracle5 products
Debian2 products
Opensuse2 products
  • tomcat&distro=openSUSE Leap 15.3< 9.0.36-19.1
  • tomcat&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 9.0.43-5.1
Ubuntu2 products
  • tomcat8< 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.13+esm1 | < 8.5.39-1ubuntu1~18.04.3+esm2
  • tomcat9< 9.0.16-3ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm2 | < 9.0.31-1ubuntu0.6
Apache1 product
  • tomcatEOL≥ 8.5.55, ≤ 8.5.73 | ≥ 9.0.35, ≤ 9.0.56 | ≥ 10.0.1, ≤ 10.0.14 | 10.0.0:milestone10 | 10.0.0:milestone5 | 10.0.0:milestone6 | 10.0.0:milestone7 | 10.0.0:milestone8 | 10.0.0:milestone9 | 10.1.0:milestone1 | 10.1.0:milestone2 | 10.1.0:milestone3 | 10.1.0:milestone4 | 10.1.0:milestone5 | 10.1.0:milestone6 | 10.1.0:milestone7 | 10.1.0:milestone8
Apache software foundation1 product
  • apache tomcatApache Tomcat 10.1 10.1.0-M1 to 10.1.0-M8 | Apache Tomcat 10.0 10.0.0-M5 to 10.0.14 | Apache Tomcat 9 9.0.35 to 9.0.56 | Apache Tomcat 8 8.5.55 to 8.5.73
Org.apache.tomcat1 product
  • tomcat≥ 10.0.0, < 10.0.16 | ≥ 9.0.0, < 9.0.58 | < 8.5.75

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