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CVE-2022-23470

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-23470 is an arbitrary file read vulnerability affecting Galaxy 22.01 and higher, stemming from its use of Gunicorn to serve static content. This allows an unauthenticated attacker to read any file accessible to the operating system user running Galaxy. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high confidentiality impact, but no integrity or availability impact. There is currently no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 22.01, <= 22.05CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:galaxyproject:galaxy:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.6HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
4.0
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
52.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0078 is in the 28th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / galaxyproject/galaxy/commit/e5e6bda4f014f807ca77ee0cf6af777a55918346
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / galaxyproject/galaxy/security/advisories/GHSA-grjf-2ghx-q77x
PatchThird Party Advisory