CVE-2022-2809 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2022-2809

Unauthenticated out of bounds heap write in bmcweb

Vulnerability Description

A vulnerability in bmcweb of OpenBMC Project allows user to cause denial of service. When fuzzing the multipart_parser code using AFL++ with address sanitizer enabled to find smallest memory corruptions possible. It detected problem in how multipart_parser handles unclosed http headers. If long enough http header is passed in the multipart form without colon there is one byte overwrite on heap. It can be conducted multiple times in a loop to cause DoS.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Finder: Jakub Rozanski, Intel Corporation
  • Remediation: Krzysztof Grobelny, Intel Corporation

Affected Vendor

OpenBMC Project

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Affected Software

OpenBMC
Vulnerable Versions:
2.10

Timeline

Official Publish: October 27th, 2022
Last Modified: May 5th, 2025
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)