CVE-2022-4993

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.19.1
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 9.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-13. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 9.1; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory
Trending — 3 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2022-56018 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.1EG
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 severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.6%CVSS: 9.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Fixed versions, as the CVE record's CNA (CPAN Security Group) states them: "Upgrade to HTML-FormHandler 0.410000 or later."

HTML::FormHandler versions before 0.410000 for Perl allow attacker selected method dispatch and resource exhaustion because _apply_actions and add_error use error message text built from request data as a Locale::Maketext bracket notation template.

add_error hands its first argument to the language handle as the Locale::Maketext message key, and the default handle's lexicon sets _AUTO, so a string that is not a lexicon entry is compiled as a bracket notation template instead of being looked up. In a bracket group the first token names a method called on the language handle and the remaining tokens are its arguments.

Three kinds of text the library did not author reach that position. _apply_actions installs a $SIG{__WARN__} handler that stores the warning text in $error_message, and a captured warning survives a successful action, so a field carrying a numeric transform turns Argument "[sprintf,%50000000d,0]" isn't numeric into the template; a warning quotes the submitted value verbatim, so the group is well formed and dispatches. $error_message ||= $tobj->validate($new_value) takes a type constraint's own failure message, which renders the rejected value through a partial dumper in bracket and comma form (Devel::PartialDump when Moose can load it, Type::Tiny's own dumper always), so a field with apply => [ Str ] given a parameter sent more than once, which arrives as an array, gets Reference ["a","b"] did not pass type constraint "Str" as its template, from a request that carries no bracket character of its own. A coercion or transform exception reaches it the same way. Beyond those, a validator whose message contains the field value puts that value in the template directly, and add_error replaces the message list with the contents of an arrayref first argument (@message = @{$message[0]} if ref $message[0] eq 'ARRAY'), so a value arriving as an array fills the argument slots from the same request as well.

A malformed group such as [0] makes the compile croak, and HTML::FormHandler::I18N::maketext and add_error each re-raise that as a die, so process() throws. A well formed group naming sprintf reaches CORE::sprintf with an attacker chosen field width. Any caller that applies a type constraint or a transform to an untrusted field, or whose validator passes an untrusted field value to add_error, can be made to throw an unhandled exception out of process(), or to allocate an arbitrary amount of memory in one request, and an application whose language handle subclass defines side effecting public methods makes those callable with attacker chosen arguments. The dumped type constraint message is bounded to the exception, because both dumpers quote non-numeric elements so the method slot is never an attacker chosen name. The built-in messages pass fixed templates with the value in an argument slot, where it stays inert, and the built-in field types attach explicit message callbacks, so neither is affected.

CVSS v3
9.1
EG Score
9.1CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
56
EG Risk 56/100

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)
Severity91% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.6% × 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
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
50th
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 (9.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.1 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). 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

August 13, 2026

Last Modified

September 8, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Sep 15, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_pr.

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2022-4993(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(3 across 3 ecosystems)
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libhtml-formhandler-perl0.40068-2, 0.40068-3
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libhtml-formhandler-perl0.40068-2, 0.40068-3
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libhtml-formhandler-perl0.40068-2
  • every version up to 0.40068-3: fixed in 0.40068-3
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Weakness Classification(2)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 90× 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 100 of 416 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. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 316 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:39 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 50th percentile
  2. 2026-11-02 02:14 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-02 02:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  4. 2026-11-01 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 50th percentile
  5. 2026-11-01 00:51 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-11-01 00:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  7. 2026-10-31 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 50th percentile
  8. 2026-10-30 23:29 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-30 23:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  10. 2026-10-30 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 50th percentile
  11. 2026-10-29 22:06 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-29 22:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  13. 2026-10-29 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 50th percentile
  14. 2026-10-28 20:43 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-28 20:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  16. 2026-10-28 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
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  18. 2026-10-27 19:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  19. 2026-10-27 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
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  21. 2026-10-26 17:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  25. 2026-10-25 15:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  1. 2026-10-24 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  2. 2026-10-24 14:32 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-24 14:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  4. 2026-10-23 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  5. 2026-10-23 13:10 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-23 13:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  7. 2026-10-22 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
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  9. 2026-10-22 11:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  10. 2026-10-21 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
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  12. 2026-10-21 10:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  13. 2026-10-20 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
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  15. 2026-10-20 08:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  18. 2026-10-19 07:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  20. 2026-10-18 06:09 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-18 06:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  24. 2026-10-17 04:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  27. 2026-10-16 03:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  30. 2026-10-15 00:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  36. 2026-10-12 17:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  44. 2026-10-07 07:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  50. 2026-10-06 13:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  52. 2026-10-05 18:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  54. 2026-10-05 14:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  59. 2026-10-04 22:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  65. 2026-10-03 19:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  67. 2026-10-03 01:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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  69. 2026-10-02 21:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-7p5w-9cxg-wcf3 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2022-4993?
CVE-2022-4993 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 13, 2026. HTML::FormHandler versions before 0.410000 for Perl allow attacker selected method dispatch and resource exhaustion because _apply_actions and add_error use error message text built from request data as a Locale::Maketext bracket notation template. add_error hands its first argument to the language…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2022-4993 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2022-4993 was published on August 13, 2026. 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 September 8, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2022-4993 actively exploited?
CVE-2022-4993 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (50th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-4993?
CVE-2022-4993 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.1 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2022-4993?
A fix for CVE-2022-4993 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. Fixed versions, as the CVE record's CNA (CPAN Security Group) states them: "Upgrade to HTML-FormHandler 0.410000 or later." The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2022-4993 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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