CVE-2022-4116 Code injection in quarkus dev ui config editor

What is CVE-2022-4116?

CVE-2022-4116 is a critical vulnerability in quarkus, published on 22 Nov 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A vulnerability was found in quarkus. This security flaw happens in Dev UI Config Editor which is vulnerable to drive-by localhost attacks leading to remote code execution.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-4116?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including io.quarkus:quarkus-vertx-http-deployment. It affects 2 products.

Products include Quarkus Quarkus, Redhat Build of Quarkus.

How do I fix CVE-2022-4116?

Upgrade io.quarkus:quarkus-vertx-http-deployment to a fixed version for your release line: 2.13.5.Final or 2.14.2.Final.

Is CVE-2022-4116 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-4116 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in quarkus

• CVE-2022-2466 Quarkus does not terminate HTTP requests header context Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-12225 Io.quarkus:quarkus-security-webauthn: quarkus webauthn unexpected authentication bypass Critical 9.1
• CVE-2026-39852 Quarkus authorization bypass via semicolon path normalization inconsistency High 8.8
• CVE-2022-0981 Privilege escalation in quarkus High 8.8
• CVE-2023-6267 Quarkus: json payload getting processed prior to security checks when rest resources are used with annotations. High 8.6

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g56w-cwg4-hxx9.