CVE-2022-35250 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Rocket.chat <v5 which made it possible to elevate privileges for any authenticated user to view Direct messages without appropriate permissions.

Published: 2022-09-23

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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Rocket.chat

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`Fixed in 5.0>`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:rocket.chat:rocket.chat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-38142	A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in Rocket.chat <v5 which made it possible to elevate privileges for any authenticated user to view Direct messages without appropriate permissions.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00316.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://hackerone.com/reports/917946

History

Thu, 22 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Rocket.chat Rocket.chat

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published: 2022-09-23T18:28:12.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-22T18:51:50.487Z

Reserved: 2022-07-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-35250

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T09:29:17.467Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-23T19:15:14.107

Modified: 2025-05-22T19:15:33.913

Link: CVE-2022-35250

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-732

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