🛡️ CVE-2022-45003 — gophish

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-400 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Gophish vulnerable to Denial of Service via crafted payload involving autofocus

Gophish through 0.12.1 allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted payload involving autofocus.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-45003 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2022-45003 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • github.com/gophish/gophish
  • gophish (fixed in 0.12.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 22 March 2023 and last revised on 26 February 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
pastebin.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-400
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-03-22
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2025-02-26
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
github.com/gophish/gophish — —
gophish — 0.12.1

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