CVE-2022-38840 — cgi-bin/xmlstatus

cgi-bin/xmlstatus.cgi in Güralp MAN-EAM-0003 3.2.4 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue via XML file upload, which leads to local file disclosure.

01What is this vulnerability?

cgi-bin/xmlstatus.cgi in Güralp MAN-EAM-0003 3.2.4 is vulnerable to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue via XML file upload, which leads to local file disclosure.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-04-16T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-02-06T17:08:25.766Z

09References

• drive.google.com — https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UG5IcL8fFp9MV0vjd78_cx6iXKda5bpM?usp=sha…
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171439/MAN-EAM-0003-3.2.4-XML-Injection.htm…