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CVE-2022-24112

Apache APISIX Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

KEVCRITICAL 9.8EPSS 96.0%

Does this matter?

Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 15 September 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.

Description

An attacker can abuse the batch-requests plugin to send requests to bypass the IP restriction of Admin API. A default configuration of Apache APISIX (with default API key) is vulnerable to remote code execution. When the admin key was changed or the port of Admin API was changed to a port different from the data panel, the impact is lower. But there is still a risk to bypass the IP restriction of Apache APISIX's data panel. There is a check in the batch-requests plugin which overrides the client IP with its real remote IP. But due to a bug in the code, this check can be bypassed.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
96.00% probability · 100th percentile
CISA KEV
Listed 25 August 2022 · due 15 September 2022
Weakness
CWE-290
Affected
apache/apisix
Source
security@apache.org

CISA notes

Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://lists.apache.org/thread/lcdqywz8zy94mdysk7p3gfdgn51jmt94; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24112

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.