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CVE-2022-45197

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-45197 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Slixmpp versions prior to 1.8.3, where a lack of SSL Certificate hostname validation in XMLStream allows an attacker to impersonate a legitimate server. This flaw has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a low-complexity network attack that could lead to high integrity impact, though confidentiality and availability are not directly affected. Despite its severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.8.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:slixmpp_project:slixmpp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0047 is in the 16th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: slixmppFixed in: 1.8.3

Vendor Advisories (1)

pipGHSA-q6cq-m9gm-6q2fhigh

Slixmpp lacks SSL Certificate hostname validation in XMLStream

Dec 25, 2022

References

github.com / poezio/slixmpp/commits/master/slixmpp/xmlstream/xmlstream.py
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / poezio/slixmpp/tags
Third Party Advisory
lab.louiz.org / poezio/slixmpp/-/commit/b60b1b985db928532f97c4f61d6fbc801f0aa7fa
PatchThird Party Advisory
lab.louiz.org / poezio/slixmpp/-/commits/master
PatchThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202305-07