🛡️ CVE-2022-2997 — snipe-it

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-384 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Insufficient Session Expiration in snipe/snipe-it

Session Fixation in GitHub repository snipe/snipe-it prior to version 6.0.10. The session is not invalidated after a password change.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-2997 is classified as CWE-384: Session Fixation. A session identifier is not renewed at login, so an identifier planted beforehand becomes an authenticated session.

Affected software

CVE-2022-2997 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • snipe-it (fixed in 6.0.10)
  • snipe/snipe-it (fixed in 6.0.10)

Timeline and source

Published on 25 August 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
huntr.dev
github.com
huntr.dev

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-384
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-08-25
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
snipe-it — 6.0.10
snipe/snipe-it — 6.0.10

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