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

> Attackers can crash the search-api pod via crafted queries, causing denial of service in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 1 Sep 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-gpp7-gqhm-5827

## 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 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-2238?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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.

## 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-4740/): Open Cluster Management (OCM): Cross-cluster privilege escalation via improper Kubernetes client certificate renewal validation (high 8.2)
- [CVE-2023-3027](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-3027/): Privilege escalation in RHACM (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2022-3841](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3841/): Server-side request forgery in RHACM (high 7.8)
- [CVE-2026-71474](https://insights.sbomify.com/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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-71475/): Insights-client-rhel9: insights-client: spoke-controlled clusterid injected unencoded into insights api url path (medium 6.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-2238 and fix it if it is affected.

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

Affected product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes. 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-2022-2238/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2238/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2238
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2238
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-2238

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-2238/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.