CVE-2022-28357

criticalpriority · track · 39EPSS 0.012 · 67 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.16% (67th) EPSS

CVSS 9.8 · critical

Is it mine?

5 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

NATS nats-server 2.2.0 through 2.7.4 allows directory traversal because of an unintended path to a management action from a management account.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-22US

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
linuxfoundation nats-server2.2.0 → 2.7.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:linuxfoundation:nats-server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Go github.com/nats-io/nats-serverall versionsosvUSpkg:golang/github.com/nats-io/nats-server
Go github.com/nats-io/nats-server2.2.0 → 2.7.4osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/nats-io/nats-server
Go github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v22.2.0 → 2.7.4osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-vpjc-4jcv-jc29NATS nats-server allows directory traversal via unintended path to a management action 2023-09-19ghsa · osvUS
NATS nats-server 2.2.0 through 2.7.4 allows directory traversal because of an unintended path to a management action from a management account.
GO-2023-2066NATS nats-server allows directory traversal via unintended path to a management action in github.com/nats-io/nats-server2024-08-21vendor · osvUS
NATS nats-server allows directory traversal via unintended path to a management action in github.com/nats-io/nats-server

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2023-09-19modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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