🛡️ CVE-2022-31324 — wapples

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-494 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

An arbitrary file download vulnerability in the downloadAction() function of Penta Security Systems Inc WAPPLES v6.0 r3 4.10-hotfix1 allows attackers to download arbitrary files via a crafted POST request.

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. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-31324 is classified as CWE-494: Download of Code Without Integrity Check. Code or updates are fetched and executed without verifying they are authentic and unmodified.

Affected software

CVE-2022-31324 is recorded against 1 package.

  • wapples

Timeline and source

Published on 13 September 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

medium.com
www.pentasecurity.com
medium.com
www.pentasecurity.com

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-494
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-09-13
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
wapples

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