CVE-2022-25881 (GCVE-0-2022-25881)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-31 05:00 – Updated: 2025-03-27 17:16
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
This affects versions of the package http-cache-semantics before 4.1.1. The issue can be exploited via malicious request header values sent to a server, when that server reads the cache policy from the request using this library.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-03-27 17:16 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | http-cache-semantics |
Affected:
0 , < 4.1.1
(semver)
|
||
| n/a | org.webjars.npm:http-cache-semantics |
Affected:
0 , < 4.1.1
(semver)
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"url": "https://github.com/kornelski/http-cache-semantics/blob/master/index.js%23L83"
},
{
"url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230622-0008/"
}
]
}
},
"cveMetadata": {
"assignerOrgId": "bae035ff-b466-4ff4-94d0-fc9efd9e1730",
"assignerShortName": "snyk",
"cveId": "CVE-2022-25881",
"datePublished": "2023-01-31T05:00:01.220Z",
"dateReserved": "2022-02-24T11:58:26.944Z",
"dateUpdated": "2025-03-27T17:16:32.835Z",
"state": "PUBLISHED"
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}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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