CVE-2022-31542 is a critical absolute path traversal vulnerability (CWE-22) affecting the mandoku/mdweb repository through 2015-05-07 on GitHub, specifically within the mdweb_project. This flaw arises from the unsafe use of Flask's send_file function. With a CVSS score of 9.3 (CRITICAL), it can be exploited remotely without authentication (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N) to achieve high confidentiality impact (C:H) and low availability impact (A:L). While there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2015-05-07CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mdweb_project:mdweb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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.