🛡️ CVE-2022-23457
🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-22 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

ESAPI (The OWASP Enterprise Security API) is a free, open source, web application security control library. Prior to version 2.3.0.0, the default implementation of `Validator.getValidDirectoryPath(String, String, File, boolean)` may incorrectly treat the tested input string as a child of the specified parent directory. This potentially could allow control-flow bypass checks to be defeated if an attack can specify the entire string representing the 'input' path. This vulnerability is patched in release 2.3.0.0 of ESAPI. As a workaround, it is possible to write one's own implementation of the Validator interface. However, maintainers do not recommend this.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-04-25
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-11-03

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
active-iq-unified-manager
enterprise-security-api 2.3.0.0
oncommand-workflow-automation
org.owasp.esapi:esapi 2.3.0.0
weblogic-server

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