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CVE-2022-29161

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-29161 is a critical vulnerability affecting XWiki Platform versions prior to 13.10.6, 14.3.1, and 14.4-rc-1. The XWiki Crypto API by default generates X509 certificates signed with SHA1 with RSA, which is cryptographically weak and susceptible to collision attacks. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high potential impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 13.10.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 14.0, < 14.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:xwiki:xwiki:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
32.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 9th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-cryptoFixed in: 13.10.6
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform-cryptoFixed in: 14.3.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-h8v5-p258-pqf4medium

Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm in XWiki Crypto API

May 24, 2022

References

github.com / xwiki/xwiki-platform/commit/26728f3f23658288683667a5182a916c7ecefc52
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / xwiki/xwiki-platform/security/advisories/GHSA-h8v5-p258-pqf4
Third Party Advisory
jira.xwiki.org / browse/XWIKI-19676
Vendor Advisory