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CVE-2022-31023

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-31023 affects Play Framework versions prior to 2.8.16, allowing the generation of verbose error messages containing sensitive information in production environments. This occurs due to improper configuration or inadvertent use of the static DefaultHttpErrorHandler object, which is designed for development mode. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability could lead to sensitive information disclosure (C:H) without requiring user interaction or complex attack vectors (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in the KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.8.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:lightbend:play_framework:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.9MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0123 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.typesafe.play:play_2.12Fixed in: 2.8.16
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: com.typesafe.play:play_2.13Fixed in: 2.8.16

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-p9p4-97g9-wcrhmedium

Dev error stack trace leaking into prod in Play Framework

Jun 3, 2022

References

github.com / playframework/playframework/pull/11305
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / playframework/playframework/releases/tag/2.8.16
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / playframework/playframework/security/advisories/GHSA-p9p4-97g9-wcrh
MitigationThird Party Advisory