CVE-2022-2238 SQL injection in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

What is CVE-2022-2238?

CVE-2022-2238 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, published on 1 Sep 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability was found in the search-api container in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes when a query in the search filter gets parsed by the backend. This flaw allows an attacker to craft specific strings containing special characters that lead to crashing the pod and affects system availability while restarting.

Weakness: CWE-89

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2238?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes.

How do I fix CVE-2022-2238?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-2238 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Use parameterised queries everywhere and never build SQL by joining strings. Upgrade affected software first; a web application firewall only buys time. More about SQL injection.

Is CVE-2022-2238 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-2238 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

• CVE-2026-4740 Open Cluster Management (OCM): Cross-cluster privilege escalation via improper Kubernetes client certificate renewal validation High 8.2
• CVE-2023-3027 Privilege escalation in RHACM High 7.8
• CVE-2022-3841 Server-side request forgery in RHACM High 7.8
• CVE-2026-71474 Insights-client-rhel9: insights-client: pull-secret bearer token written to logs on non-200 ccx response High 7.1
• CVE-2026-71475 Insights-client-rhel9: insights-client: spoke-controlled clusterid injected unencoded into insights api url path Medium 6.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-gpp7-gqhm-5827.