9.8

CVE-2022-29599: Commandline class shell injection vulnerabilities

Modified
AliasesRHSA-2022:1541RHSA-2022:1662RHSA-2022:4699
Published 23-05-2022Last modified 03-08-2024

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-29599 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output vulnerability in apache software foundation apache maven. EPSS estimates a 4.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 9.8 (NVD); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 4% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
4.42%
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 11

Timeline

  1. 23-05-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

In Apache Maven maven-shared-utils prior to version 3.3.3, the Commandline class can emit double-quoted strings without proper escaping, allowing shell injection attacks.

CVSS metrics

7 scores · 6 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

4.42%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

91%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 4.42% 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: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Redhat57 products
  • aopalliance< 0:1.0-17.module+el8+2452+b359bfcd | < 0:1.0-20.module+el8.2.0+5557+11a14461 | < 0:1.0-20.module+el8.3.0+6804+157bd82e | < 0:1.0-20.module+el8.6.0+13337+afcb49ec
  • apache-commons-cli< 0:1.4-4.module+el8+2452+b359bfcd | < 0:1.4-7.module+el8.2.0+5557+11a14461 | < 0:1.4-7.module+el8.3.0+6804+157bd82e | < 0:1.4-7.module+el8.6.0+13337+afcb49ec
  • apache-commons-codec< 0:1.11-3.module+el8+2452+b359bfcd | < 0:1.13-3.module+el8.2.0+5557+11a14461 | < 0:1.13-3.module+el8.3.0+6804+157bd82e | < 0:1.13-3.module+el8.6.0+13337+afcb49ec
  • apache-commons-io< 1:2.6-3.module+el8+2452+b359bfcd | < 1:2.6-6.module+el8.2.0+5557+11a14461 | < 1:2.6-6.module+el8.3.0+6804+157bd82e | < 1:2.6-6.module+el8.6.0+13337+afcb49ec
  • apache-commons-lang3< 0:3.7-3.module+el8+2452+b359bfcd | < 0:3.9-4.module+el8.2.0+5557+11a14461 | < 0:3.9-4.module+el8.3.0+6804+157bd82e | < 0:3.9-4.module+el8.6.0+13337+afcb49ec
Chainguard3 products
  • hadoop-fips-3.3.6All versions (No fix recorded)
  • hadoop-fips-3.4.2All versions (No fix recorded)
  • hadoop-fips-3.5All versions (No fix recorded)
Debian2 products
  • maven-shared-utils< 3.3.0-1+deb11u1 | < 3.0.0-1+deb9u1 | < 3.3.0-1+deb10u1 | < 3.3.4-1
  • debian_linuxEOL10.0 | 11.0
Apache1 product
Apache software foundation1 product
Org.apache.maven.shared1 product
  • maven-shared-utils< 3.3.3
Ubuntu1 product
  • maven-shared-utils< 0.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | < 0.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 | < 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm1 | < 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.20.04.1 | < 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.22.04.1

7 vendors · 66 products

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