# CVE-2022-29617: Denial of service in CLA Assistant

> An authenticated user can crash the SAP CLA Assistant instance via improper error handling, impacting application availability.

- **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:** 6 Jun 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-jjjv-grgr-v8h3

## What is CVE-2022-29617?

CVE-2022-29617 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in SAP SE CLA Assistant, published on 6 Jun 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Due to improper error handling an authenticated user can crash CLA assistant instance. This could impact the availability of the application.

Weakness: CWE-755 (Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-29617?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Sap Contributor License Agreement Assistant.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-29617?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-29617 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-29617 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-29617 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in SAP SE CLA Assistant

- [CVE-2023-39438](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-39438/): Missing Authorization check allows certain operations on CLA Assistant data (high 8.1)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-29617 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-29617 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in SAP SE CLA Assistant, published on 6 Jun 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-2022-29617 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: SAP SE CLA Assistant. 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-2022-29617/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-29617/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29617
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29617
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-29617

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-29617/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.