CVE-2022-42889

95

FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-42889 is a critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Apache Commons Text versions 1.5 through 1.9, affecting products from vendors like Apache, Juniper, and NetApp. This flaw arises from insecure default interpolators that can execute arbitrary code or contact remote servers when processing untrusted configuration values. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and a FAUCET Risk Score of 100/100, it allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve full system compromise with low attack complexity. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit modules are publicly available in Metasploit and ExploitDB, and it has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating a high potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		>= 1.5, < 1.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:apache:commons_text::::::::
		Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:netapp:bluexp:-:::::::*
		< 7.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:juniper:security_threat_response_manager::::::::
		7.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:juniper:security_threat_response_manager:7.5.0:-::::::
		7.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:juniper:security_threat_response_manager:7.5.0:up1::::::

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

99.93%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

100.0%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-25

Model: v2026.06.15

Metasploit: Apache Commons Text RCE · Oct 13, 2022

Nuclei: CVE-2022-42889 · Mar 17, 2024

ExploitDB: EDB-52261 · Apr 18, 2025

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.9993 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 36,829 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

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (56)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: org.apache.commons:commons-textFixed in: 1.10.0

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: OCP-Tools-4.12-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.12.1683009955-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: OCP-Tools-4.12-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.12.1698294000-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: OCP-Tools-4.12-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.12.1706515741-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: OCP-Tools-4.13-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.13.1684911916-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: OCP-Tools-4.13-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.13.1698292274-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: OCP-Tools-4.13-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.13.1706516346-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: OCP-Tools-4.14-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.14.1699356715-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: OCP-Tools-4.14-RHEL-8Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.14.1706516441-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.11Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.11.1683009941-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.11Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.11.1698299029-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.11Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.11.1706516946-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat AMQ Broker 7Fixed in: commons-text

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat AMQ Streams 2.7.0

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat build of Quarkus 2.7.7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Fuse 7.11.1Fixed in: commons-text

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-apache-cxf-0:3.1.16-4.redhat_00003.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jackson-databind-0:2.8.11.6-2.SP1_redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jettison-0:1.3.8-2.redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-netty-0:4.1.63-1.Final_redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-resteasy-0:3.0.27-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-snakeyaml-0:1.33.0-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-velocity-0:1.7.0-3.redhat_00006.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-0:7.1.9-2.GA_redhat_00002.1.ep7.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-hal-console-0:3.2.17-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jackson-annotations-0:2.10.4-2.redhat_00004.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jackson-core-0:2.10.4-2.redhat_00004.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jackson-databind-0:2.10.4-4.redhat_00004.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jackson-jaxrs-providers-0:2.10.4-2.redhat_00004.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jackson-modules-base-0:2.10.4-4.redhat_00004.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jackson-modules-java8-0:2.10.4-2.redhat_00004.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-jettison-0:1.5.2-2.redhat_00002.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-netty-0:4.1.63-4.Final_redhat_00002.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-resteasy-0:3.11.6-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-snakeyaml-0:1.33.0-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 EUS for RHEL 7Fixed in: eap7-wildfly-0:7.3.12-3.GA_redhat_00002.1.el7eap

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.10.1680703106-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9Fixed in: jenkins-2-plugins-0:4.9.1680069756-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.12 for RHEL 8Fixed in: candlepin-0:4.1.18-1.el8sat

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8Fixed in: candlepin-0:4.2.13-1.el8sat

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHINT Camel-Q 2.13.2Fixed in: commons-text

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.18.3Fixed in: commons-text

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: RHPAM 7.13.1 asyncFixed in: commons-text

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat build of Quarkus 2.13.5Fixed in: commons-text

barracudavendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

boschvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

clamavvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

consulvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

elasticvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

freshrssvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

qdrantvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

symantecvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

verbbvendor investigatingvia llm_extracted

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion PackFixed in: commons-text

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Integration Camel K 1Fixed in: commons-text

redhatno patchvia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7Fixed in: commons-text

Vendor Advisories (11)

elasticllm-elastic-e26263be9373ebb6

Splunk Response to the Apache Software Foundation Publishing a Vulnerability on Apache Commons Text (CVE-2022-42889) (Text4Shell)

barracudallm-barracuda-e101b024f29944a2

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Apache Common Text

symantecllm-symantec-1f72fbdbe90325b0

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Apache Common Text

verbbllm-verbb-c7b8d61a9ddcc1fe

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Apache Common Text

consulllm-consul-ee24490d3abd79f0

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Apache Common Text

qdrantllm-qdrant-c65870672cfa0d96

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Apache Common Text

boschllm-bosch-fcd92e31fdaa0a87

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Apache Common Text

freshrssllm-freshrss-124a649950aa3f93

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Apache Common Text

clamavllm-clamav-7d3be342869a77d9

Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Apache Common Text

mavenGHSA-599f-7c49-w659critical

Arbitrary code execution in Apache Commons Text

redhatCVE-2022-42889Critical

apache-commons-text: variable interpolation RCE

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/171003/OX-App-Suite-Cross-Site-Scripting-Server-Side-Request-Forgery.html

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

packetstormsecurity.com / files/176650/Apache-Commons-Text-1.9-Remote-Code-Execution.html

seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2023/Feb/3

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

lists.apache.org / thread/n2bd4vdsgkqh2tm14l1wyc3jyol7s1om

Mailing ListVendor Advisory

psirt.global.sonicwall.com / vuln-detail/SNWLID-2022-0022

Third Party Advisory

security.gentoo.org / glsa/202301-05

Third Party Advisory

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20221020-0004

Third Party Advisory

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2022/10/13/4

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2022/10/18/1

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory