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CVE-2022-40159

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-40159, affecting Apache Commons JXPath, is a disputed vulnerability initially reported by oss-fuzz, which JXPath maintainers later deemed invalid due to a misunderstanding of the intended security context. It carries a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that could lead to high availability impact, though no confidentiality or integrity impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_jxpath:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
65.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0122 is in the 79th 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 Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-99jc-v8qm-wjvvmedium

JXPath Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability

Oct 6, 2022

References

bugs.chromium.org / p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail