CVE-2022-45129 — Payara before 2022-11-04, when deployed to the root context, allows attackers to

Payara before 2022-11-04, when deployed to the root context, allows attackers to visit META-INF and WEB-INF, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-37422. This affects Payara Platform Community before 4.1.2.191.38, 5.x before 5.2022.4, and 6.x before 6.2022.1, and Payara Platfor

01What is this vulnerability?

Payara before 2022-11-04, when deployed to the root context, allows attackers to visit META-INF and WEB-INF, a different vulnerability than CVE-2022-37422. This affects Payara Platform Community before 4.1.2.191.38, 5.x before 5.2022.4, and 6.x before 6.2022.1, and Payara Platform Enterprise before 5.45.0.

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

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-11-10T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-05-01T13:42:02.196Z

09References

• blog.payara.fish — https://blog.payara.fish/whats-new-in-the-november-2022-payara-platform-release
• docs.payara.fish — https://docs.payara.fish/enterprise/docs/Release%20Notes/Release%20Notes%205.45.…
• docs.payara.fish — https://docs.payara.fish/community/docs/Release%20Notes/Release%20Notes%205.2022…
• docs.payara.fish — https://docs.payara.fish/community/docs/6.2022.1/Release%20Notes/Release%20Notes…
• github.com — https://github.com/payara/Payara/commit/cccdfddeda71c78ae7b3179db5429e1bb8a56b2e
• seclists.org — http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Nov/11
• packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/169864/Payara-Platform-Path-Traversal.html