🛡️ CVE-2022-4068 — librenms

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-915 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Cross-site Scripting in librenms/librenms

A user is able to enable their own account if it was disabled by an admin while the user still holds a valid session. Moreover, the username is not properly sanitized in the admin user overview. This enables an XSS attack that enables an attacker with a low privilege user to execute arbitrary JavaScript in the context of an admin's account.

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 changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-4068 is classified as CWE-915: Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Attributes. A request can set object fields that were never meant to be writable from outside.

Affected software

CVE-2022-4068 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • librenms (fixed in 22.10.0)
  • librenms/librenms (fixed in 22.10.0)

Timeline and source

Published on 20 November 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 MEDIUM
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-915
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2022-11-20
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
librenms — 22.10.0
librenms/librenms — 22.10.0

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