CVE-2022-42902 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2022-42902?

CVE-2022-42902 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 13 Oct 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Linaro Automated Validation Architecture (LAVA) before 2022.10, there is dynamic code execution in lava_server/lavatable.py. Due to improper input sanitization, an anonymous user can force the lava-server-gunicorn service to execute user-provided code on the server.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-42902?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linaro Lava.

How do I fix CVE-2022-42902?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2022-42902 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-42902 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-42902, DLA-3192-1, DSA-5260-1, GHSA-f37p-jfgg-9646.