# CVE-2022-3589: Miele: Vulnerability in cloud service used by appWash

> Remote attackers can bypass authorization to read and partially modify other users' data in the Miele appWash cloud service.

- **Severity:** High 8.1 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **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:** 21 Nov 2022
- **Updated:** 25 Apr 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-cj87-vv3f-mmxj

## What is CVE-2022-3589?

CVE-2022-3589 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Miele appWash, published on 21 Nov 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

An API Endpoint used by Miele's "AppWash" MobileApp in all versions was vulnerable to an authorization bypass. A low privileged, remote attacker would have been able to gain read and partial write access to other users data by modifying a small part of a HTTP request sent to the API. Reading or changing the password of another user was not possible, thus no impact to Availability.

Weakness: CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-3589?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Miele Appwash.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-3589?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-3589 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-3589 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-3589 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-3589 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-3589 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Miele appWash, published on 21 Nov 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-2022-3589 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Miele appWash. 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-2022-3589/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3589/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3589
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3589
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-3589

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-3589/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.