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CVE-2022-38778

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-38778 is a medium-severity flaw in a third-party dependency of Kibana, specifically affecting the decode-uri-component library. An authenticated user can exploit this vulnerability to crash the Kibana server process, leading to a denial of service. While no active exploits, public exploit code, or significant community discussion have been observed, its CVSS score of 6.5 indicates a moderate risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 0.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:decode-uri-component_project:decode-uri-component:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
>= 7.0.0, < 7.17.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, < 8.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
55.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0088 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 21,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1Fixed in: puppet-kibana3
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2Fixed in: puppet-kibana3

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2022-38778Moderate

kibana: Kibana authenticated Denial of Service issue (ESA-2023-02)

Feb 8, 2023

References

discuss.elastic.co / t/elastic-7-17-9-8-5-0-and-8-6-1-security-update/324661
Vendor Advisory
elastic.co / community/security
Vendor Advisory