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Payara, when deployed to the root context, allows attackers to visit META-INF and WEB-INF

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 10, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 4, 2025

Package

maven fish.payara.distributions:payara (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 6.2021.1.Alpha1, < 6.2022.2
>= 5.0.0.Alpha1, < 5.2022.2
<= 4.1.2.181

Patched versions

6.2022.2
5.2022.5

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 10, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 10, 2022
Reviewed Sep 4, 2025
Last updated Sep 4, 2025

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(81st percentile)

Weaknesses

Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

The product makes files or directories accessible to unauthorized actors, even though they should not be. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2022-45129

GHSA ID

GHSA-q35w-85pq-rv3x

Source code

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