CVE-2022-2809

Unauthenticated out of bounds heap write in bmcweb

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: October 27, 2022 at 01:09 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:42 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOpenbmc

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

A vulnerability in bmcweb of OpenBMC Project allows user to cause denial of service. When fuzzing the multipart_parser code using AFL++ with address sanitizer enabled to find smallest memory corruptions possible. It detected problem in how multipart_parser handles unclosed http headers. If long enough http header is passed in the multipart form without colon there is one byte overwrite on heap. It can be conducted multiple times in a loop to cause DoS.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

2.10 ≤ v < Release*2.10.0 ≤ v ≤ 2.13.02.10
Affected range stops below Release*, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (1)

ProductThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/openbmc/bmcweb

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-122CWE-229CWE-787

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