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CVE-2022-40929

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-40929 describes a critical command execution vulnerability in XXL-JOB version 2.2.0, affecting the xuxueli xxl_job product. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the vendor disputes it as an intended feature for running user-provided Bash scripts, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xuxueli:xxl-job:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0127 is in the 53rd percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-m54f-rp6r-rrrmcritical

XXL-JOB contains a Command execution vulnerability in background tasks

Sep 29, 2022

References

github.com / xuxueli/xxl-job/issues/2979
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory