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CVE-2022-24450

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-24450 is a high-severity Incorrect Access Control vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) affecting NATS nats-server and nats-streaming-server versions prior to 2.7.2. An authenticated attacker can exploit a flaw in the "dynamically provisioned sandbox accounts" feature to escalate privileges and gain full control of the System account. This vulnerability has a network attack vector and low attack complexity, requiring only low privileges for an attacker to achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its critical impact, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code available, and minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2.0.0, < 2.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:nats-server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 0.15.0, < 0.24.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:nats:nats_streaming_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0131 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 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, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (20)

gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2Fixed in: 2.7.2
gopatch availablevia ghsa
Product: github.com/nats-io/nats-streaming-serverFixed in: 0.24.1
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: node-exporter-container
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/acm-grafana-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/thanos-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: grafana-dashboard-loader-container
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/prometheus-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/rbac-query-proxy-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/endpoint-monitoring-rhel8-operator
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/kube-state-metrics-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/metrics-collector-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/multicluster-observability-rhel8-operator
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/multicluster-operators-channel-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/multicluster-operators-subscription-release-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/multicluster-operators-subscription-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/observatorium-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/observatorium-rhel8-operator
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/prometheus-alertmanager-rhel8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/assisted-installer-agent-rhel8
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/agent-service-rhel8

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-g6w6-r76c-28j7high

Incorrect Authorization in NATS nats-server

Feb 8, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-24450Moderate

nats-server: misusing the "dynamically provisioned sandbox accounts" feature authenticated user can obtain the privileges of the System account

Feb 7, 2022

References

advisories.nats.io / CVE/CVE-2022-24450.txt
Vendor Advisory
github.com / nats-io/nats-server/releases/tag/v2.7.2
Release NotesThird Party Advisory