# CVE-2022-40722: Misconfiguration of RSA padding for offline MFA in the PingID Adapter for PingFederate.

> Attackers can bypass offline MFA in PingFederate via pre-computed dictionary attacks due to weak RSA padding configuration.

- **Severity:** High 7.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 25 Apr 2023
- **Updated:** 4 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-7qpc-pm8w-mgv5

## What is CVE-2022-40722?

CVE-2022-40722 is a high-severity vulnerability in PingFederate (includes PingID Adapter), published on 25 Apr 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A misconfiguration of RSA padding implemented in the PingID Adapter for PingFederate to support Offline MFA with PingID mobile authenticators is vulnerable to pre-computed dictionary attacks, leading to a bypass of offline MFA.

Weakness: CWE-327 (Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm), CWE-780 (Use of RSA Algorithm without OAEP)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-40722?

It affects 3 products.


Products: Pingidentity Pingfederate, Pingidentity Pingid Adapter for Pingfederate, Pingidentity Pingid Integration Kit.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-40722?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-40722 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2022-40722 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-40722 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in PingFederate (includes PingID Adapter)

- [CVE-2021-40329](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-40329/): The Authentication API in Ping Identity PingFederate before 10.3 mishandles certain aspects of external password management. (critical 9.8)
- [CVE-2023-40545](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-40545/): PingFederate OAuth client_secret_jwt Authentication Bypass (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-37283](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-37283/): Authentication Bypass via HTML Form & Identifier First Adapter (high 8.1)
- [CVE-2023-39219](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-39219/): Admin Console Denial of Service via Java class enumeration (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2021-41770](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-41770/): XML external entity in n/a (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-40722 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-40722 is a high-severity vulnerability in PingFederate (includes PingID Adapter), published on 25 Apr 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-40722 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: PingFederate (includes PingID Adapter). 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-2022-40722/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-40722/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-40722
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40722
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-40722

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-40722/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.