CVE-2022-4721: rdiffweb vulnerable to Special Element Injection

CVE-2022-4721 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2022-12-27

Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in GitHub repository ikus060/rdiffweb prior to 2.5.5.

Technologies: rdiffweb (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Quick answers

Is CVE-2022-4721 exploited in the wild?
No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2022-4721 being exploited in the wild.
How severe is CVE-2022-4721?
Low severity, with a CVSS score of 3.1, published 27 December 2022.
Which products and versions are affected?
rdiffweb (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=2.5.5, GIT:introduced=0,fixed=6afaae56a29536f0118b3380d296c416aa6d078d|ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=2.5.5.
Is there a fix for CVE-2022-4721?
Yes. rdiffweb (PyPI): upgrade to 2.5.5 or later. Junglewise finds every place you run it, drafts the upgrade and applies it once you approve.
Am I affected by CVE-2022-4721?
Check whether you run rdiffweb (PyPI) at an affected version. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.

How to fix

  • rdiffweb (PyPI): upgrade to 2.5.5 or later
    pip install "rdiffweb>=2.5.5"

Affected products

  • rdiffweb (PyPI) ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=2.5.5, GIT:introduced=0,fixed=6afaae56a29536f0118b3380d296c416aa6d078d|ECOSYSTEM:introduced=0,fixed=2.5.5

Identifiers

  • CVE-2022-4721
  • GHSA-83pm-7v48-5jp4
  • PYSEC-2022-43007

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