CVE-2022-29946 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

NATS.io NATS Server before 2.8.2 and Streaming Server before 0.24.6 could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by the failure to enforce negative user permissions in one scenario. By using a queue subscription on the wildcard, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to allow denied subjects.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00079.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Nats	Nats Server

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Vendors	Products
Nats	Nats Server

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Github GHSA	GHSA-2h2x-8hh2-mfq8	NATS Server and Streaming Server fails to enforce negative user permissions, may allow denied subjects

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/nats-io/advisories/blob/main/CVE/CVE-2022-29946.txt
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-29946
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-29946

History

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 5.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}`	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}` cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L'}`

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-284

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-07-11T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-10-30T14:43:56.230Z

Reserved: 2022-04-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2022-29946

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T06:33:43.113Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2024-07-11T21:15:10.480

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:00:02.060

Link: CVE-2022-29946

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-07-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-29946 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2025-07-13T11:14:58Z

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