CVE-2022-40145 — This vulnerable is about a potential code injection when an attacker has control

This vulnerable is about a potential code injection when an attacker has control of the target LDAP server using in the JDBC JNDI URL.

01What is this vulnerability?

This vulnerable is about a potential code injection when an attacker has control of the target LDAP server using in the JDBC JNDI URL.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Karaf	4.4.0, 0

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: 2022-12-21T15:23:42.847Z
• Last modified: 2025-04-15T18:03:47.618Z

09References

• karaf.apache.org — https://karaf.apache.org/security/cve-2022-40145.txt