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CVE-2022-31168

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-31168 is an incorrect authorization vulnerability in Zulip Server versions 5.4 and earlier, allowing an authenticated organization member to elevate a bot's privileges to organization administrator via a crafted API call. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and requiring only low privileges, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.5
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
51.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0076 is in the 45th percentile among its peer group of 17,823 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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 (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

github.com / zulip/zulip/commit/751b2a03e565e9eb02ffe923b7c24ac73d604034
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / zulip/zulip/releases/tag/5.5
Release NotesThird Party Advisory
github.com / zulip/zulip/security/advisories/GHSA-c3cp-ggg5-9xw5
Third Party Advisory