🛡️ CVE-2022-0242 — crater

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-434 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type in Crater

Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type in GitHub repository crater-invoice/crater prior to 6.0.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-0242 is classified as CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type. Uploads are accepted without restricting type, so an executable file can be placed where the server will run it.

Affected software

CVE-2022-0242 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • bytefury/crater (fixed in 6.0)
  • crater (fixed in 6.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 21 January 2022 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
huntr.dev (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-434
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-01-21
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
bytefury/crater — 6.0
crater — 6.0

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