CVE-2022-23305

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-01-21. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekElevated

Also known asEUVD-2022-0477 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 67%
  • Public exploit or proof-of-concept code is available
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 67%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

By design, the JDBCAppender in Log4j 1.2.x accepts an SQL statement as a configuration parameter where the values to be inserted are converters from PatternLayout. The message converter, %m, is likely to always be included. This allows attackers to manipulate the SQL by entering crafted strings into input fields or headers of an application that are logged allowing unintended SQL queries to be executed. Note this issue only affects Log4j 1.x when specifically configured to use the JDBCAppender, which is not the default. Beginning in version 2.0-beta8, the JDBCAppender was re-introduced with proper support for parameterized SQL queries and further customization over the columns written to in logs. Apache Log4j 1.2 reached end of life in August 2015. Users should upgrade to Log4j 2 as it addresses numerous other issues from the previous versions.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
86
EG Risk 86/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation67% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
67%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
67% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-02). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

January 18, 2022

Last Modified

May 27, 2026

Advisory Details (4)

Auto-updated Oct 8, 2026
Patch available.
Web page

oss-security - CVE-2022-23305: SQL injection in JDBC Appender in Apache Log4j V1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/18/4

Patch Availability(24)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhateap7-xml-security-0:2.2.3-2.redhat_00001.1.el7eap2024-11-25redhat
redhateap7-log4j-jboss-logmanager-0:1.2.2-1.Final_redhat_00002.1.ep7.el72024-08-26redhat
redhatpatch2022-06-30redhat
redhatjbossweb-0:7.5.32-2.Final_redhat_1.2.ep6.el72022-06-30redhat
redhatjbossweb-0:7.5.32-2.Final_redhat_1.2.ep6.el62022-06-30redhat
redhateap7-log4j-0:2.17.1-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap2022-04-11redhat
redhateap7-log4j-0:2.17.1-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap2022-04-11redhat
redhatorg.jboss.logmanager/log4j-jboss-logmanager:1.2.2.Final-redhat-000022022-04-11redhat
redhatlog4j2022-02-23redhat
redhatlog4j-eap62022-02-14redhat
redhattomcat-native-0:1.2.23-26.redhat_26.ep7.el72022-02-14redhat
redhatpatch2022-02-08redhat
redhatsnmp4j-0:3.6.4-0.1.el8ev2022-02-08redhat
redhatrh-sso-7/sso74-openshift-rhel8:7.4-452022-02-07redhat
redhatrh-sso-7/sso7-rhel8-operator-bundle:7.5.1-92022-02-07redhat
redhatrh-sso7-keycloak-0:15.0.4-1.redhat_00003.1.el7sso2022-02-07redhat
redhatlog4j-0:1.2.17-18.el7_42022-02-07redhat
redhatrh-sso7-keycloak-0:15.0.4-1.redhat_00003.1.el8sso2022-02-07redhat
redhatrh-sso-7/sso74-openj9-openshift-rhel8:7.4-602022-02-07redhat
redhatlog4j-jboss-logmanager-0:1.1.4-3.Final_redhat_00002.1.ep6.el72022-02-03redhat
redhateap7-log4j-jboss-logmanager-0:1.2.2-1.Final_redhat_00002.1.el7eap2022-02-03redhat
redhatrh-maven36-log4j12-0:1.2.17-23.4.el72022-02-03redhat
mavenlog4j:log4j—ghsa
mavenorg.zenframework.z8.dependencies.commons:log4j-1.2.17—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(7 across 6 ecosystems)
Maven(2)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
log4j:log4j1.1.3 ... 1.2.9 (14 versions)
  • every version through 1.2.17: no fix on record
—
org.zenframework.z8.dependencies.commons:log4j-1.2.172.0
  • every version through 2.0: no fix on record
—
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache-log4j1.21.2.17-10
  • every version up to 1.2.17-10+deb11u1: fixed in 1.2.17-10+deb11u1
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache-log4j1.2—
  • every version up to 1.2.17-11: fixed in 1.2.17-11
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache-log4j1.2—
  • every version up to 1.2.17-11: fixed in 1.2.17-11
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache-log4j1.2—
  • every version up to 1.2.17-11: fixed in 1.2.17-11
—
Debian:9(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
apache-log4j1.21.2.17-7, 1.2.17-7+deb9u1
  • every version up to 1.2.17-7+deb9u2: fixed in 1.2.17-7+deb9u2
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(15)

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 28× in last 7d / 88× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 216 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 117 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 18:30 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-02 18:30 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-02 18:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-01 20:13 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-11-01 20:13 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-11-01 20:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-11-01 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  8. 2026-10-31 21:58 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-31 21:58 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-31 21:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-10-31 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  12. 2026-10-30 23:42 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-30 23:42 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-30 23:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-30 01:27 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-30 01:27 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-30 01:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-10-29 03:12 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-29 03:12 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-29 03:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  21. 2026-10-28 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  22. 2026-10-28 04:57 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-28 04:57 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-28 04:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-27 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-27 06:42 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-27 06:42 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-27 06:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-10-26 04:53 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-26 04:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-10-25 18:13 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-25 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  8. 2026-10-25 06:39 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-25 06:39 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-25 06:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-10-24 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  12. 2026-10-24 08:23 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-24 08:23 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-24 08:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-23 10:08 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-23 10:08 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-23 10:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-10-22 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  19. 2026-10-22 11:46 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-22 11:46 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-22 11:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  23. 2026-10-21 13:28 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-21 13:28 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-21 13:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  26. 2026-10-20 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  27. 2026-10-20 15:01 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-10-20 15:01 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-10-20 15:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  30. 2026-10-19 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  31. 2026-10-19 14:56 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-19 14:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  33. 2026-10-18 16:40 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-10-18 16:40 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-18 16:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  36. 2026-10-18 05:21 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-10-18 05:21 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-18 05:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  39. 2026-10-17 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  40. 2026-10-17 07:05 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-10-17 07:05 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-17 07:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  43. 2026-10-16 08:33 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-10-16 08:33 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-16 08:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  46. 2026-10-15 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  47. 2026-10-15 07:42 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-10-15 07:42 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-10-15 07:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  50. 2026-10-14 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  51. 2026-10-14 03:39 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-10-14 03:39 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-10-14 03:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  54. 2026-10-13 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  55. 2026-10-12 23:36 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-10-12 23:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-65fg-84f6-3jq3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  57. 2026-10-12 18:59 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-10-11 23:25 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-10-11 13:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  60. 2026-10-10 19:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  61. 2026-10-08 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  62. 2026-10-07 23:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  63. 2026-10-06 15:14 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  64. 2026-10-03 14:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  65. 2026-09-30 15:50 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-09-30 15:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  67. 2026-09-27 13:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  68. 2026-09-25 08:05 UTCOSV refresh
  69. 2026-09-24 14:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  70. 2026-09-23 13:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  71. 2026-09-17 19:23 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  72. 2026-09-16 14:05 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  73. 2026-09-15 03:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile
  74. 2026-09-13 16:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 67% · 99th percentile

Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 GitHub PoC), as is 1 GitHub checker repository. A GitHub repository named or described as a checker or scanner checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • GitHub PoCAlphabugX/CVE-2022-RCE
    Published Jan 21, 2022

    test 反向辣鸡数据投放 CVE-2022-23305 工具 利用 教程 Exploit POC

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub checkerHynekPetrak/log4shell-finder
    Published Dec 14, 2021

    Fastest filesystem scanner for log4shell (CVE-2021-44228, CVE-2021-45046) and other vulnerable (CVE-2017-5645, CVE-2019-17571, CVE-2022-23305, CVE-2022-23307 ... ) instances of log4j library. Excellent performance and low memory footprint.

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2022-23305?
CVE-2022-23305 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on January 18, 2022. By design, the JDBCAppender in Log4j 1.2.x accepts an SQL statement as a configuration parameter where the values to be inserted are converters from PatternLayout. The message converter, %m, is likely to always be included. This allows attackers to manipulate the SQL by entering crafted strings…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2022-23305 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2022-23305 was published on January 18, 2022. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of May 27, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2022-23305 actively exploited?
CVE-2022-23305 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 67% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-23305?
CVE-2022-23305 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2022-23305?
A fix for CVE-2022-23305 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2022-23305 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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