🛡️ CVE-2022-34551 — sims

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-22 NVD
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Description

Sims v1.0 was discovered to allow path traversal when downloading attachments.

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-2022-34551 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2022-34551 is recorded against 1 package.

  • sims

Timeline and source

Published on 27 July 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

cwe.mitre.org
github.com
cwe.mitre.org
github.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-22
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-07-27
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
sims — —

References

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/rawchen/sims/issues/7
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/rawchen/sims/issues/7

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