CVE-2022-31517 is a critical absolute path traversal vulnerability (CWE-22) affecting the HolgerGraef/MSM repository, specifically the mercury_sample_manager_project and mercury_sample_manager, due to the unsafe use of Flask's send_file function. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to remotely access sensitive information with low attack complexity, potentially leading to high confidentiality impact and low availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2021-04-20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mercury_sample_manager_project:mercury_sample_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:L
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.