# CVE-2022-22328: Privilege escalation in SterlingPartner Engagement Manager

> A malicious user can elevate privileges to perform unintended operations on other users' data in IBM Sterling Partner Engagement Manager.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.2 (`CVSS:3.0/A:N/PR:N/S:U/AV:L/UI:N/AC:L/I:H/C:N/RC:C/RL:O/E:U`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 1 Apr 2022
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-cppw-7gjq-cpxv

## What is CVE-2022-22328?

CVE-2022-22328 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM SterlingPartner Engagement Manager, published on 1 Apr 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

IBM SterlingPartner Engagement Manager 6.2.0 could allow a malicious user to elevate their privileges and perform unintended operations to another users data. IBM X-Force ID: 218871.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-22328?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Ibm Partner Engagement Manager.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-22328?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-22328 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-22328 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-22328 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in IBM SterlingPartner Engagement Manager

- [CVE-2021-29781](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-29781/): Deserialization in Partner Engagement Manager (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2022-22360](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22360/): Other in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2022-22358](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22358/): XML external entity in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2022-22332](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22332/): Security feature bypass in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager (medium 5.6)
- [CVE-2022-22416](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22416/): Server-side request forgery in Sterling Partner Engagement Manager (medium 5.4)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-22328 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-22328 is a medium-severity vulnerability in IBM SterlingPartner Engagement Manager, published on 1 Apr 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-22328 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: IBM SterlingPartner Engagement Manager. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22328/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22328/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-22328
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22328
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-22328

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-22328/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.