CVE-2022-0981 Privilege escalation in quarkus
A flaw in Quarkus RestEasy Reactive allows state leakage between requests, enabling low-privileged users to perform database operations with unintended higher privileges.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2022-0981?
CVE-2022-0981 is a high-severity vulnerability in quarkus, published on 23 Mar 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A flaw was found in Quarkus. The state and potentially associated permissions can leak from one web request to another in RestEasy Reactive. This flaw allows a low-privileged user to perform operations on the database with a different set of privileges than intended.
Weakness: CWE-863
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-0981?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Quarkus Quarkus.
How do I fix CVE-2022-0981?
No fix has been published for CVE-2022-0981 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2022-0981 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-0981 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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- CVE-2024-12225 Io.quarkus:quarkus-security-webauthn: quarkus webauthn unexpected authentication bypass
- CVE-2026-39852 Quarkus authorization bypass via semicolon path normalization inconsistency
- CVE-2023-6267 Quarkus: json payload getting processed prior to security checks when rest resources are used with annotations.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-wr4r-g543-785x.