CVE-2022-31259 Access control bypass in beego

What is CVE-2022-31259?

CVE-2022-31259 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in n/a, published on 21 May 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The route lookup process in beego before 1.12.9 and 2.x before 2.0.3 allows attackers to bypass access control. When a /p1/p2/:name route is configured, attackers can access it by appending .xml in various places (e.g., p1.xml instead of p1).

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-31259?

7 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/beego/beego, github.com/astaxie/beego and github.com/beego/beego/v2. It affects 1 product.

Products include Beego Beego.

How do I fix CVE-2022-31259?

Upgrade github.com/beego/beego to 1.12.9 or later.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2022-31259 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-31259 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2022-31836 Path Traversal in Beego Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-30080 Access control bypass in Beego Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-30223 Beego allows Reflected/Stored XSS in Beego's RenderForm() Function Due to Unescaped User Input Critical 9.3
• CVE-2024-40464 Beego privilege escalation vulnerability High 8.8
• CVE-2024-40465 Beego privilege escalation vulnerability High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-qx32-f6g6-fcfr, GO-2022-0463.