CVE-2022-3540 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue has been discovered in hunter2 affecting all versions before 2.1.0. Improper handling of auto-completion input allows an authenticated attacker to extract other users email addresses

Published: 2022-10-17

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

The hunter2 Contributors

hunter2

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`<2.1.0`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:hunter2_project:hunter2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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-2022-42906	An issue has been discovered in hunter2 affecting all versions before 2.1.0. Improper handling of auto-completion input allows an authenticated attacker to extract other users email addresses

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

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 0.00122.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-3540.json
https://gitlab.com/hunter2.app/hunter2/-/issues/529

History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00034}`	epss `{'score': 0.00042}`

Tue, 13 May 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Hunter2 Project Hunter2

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2022-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-13T13:56:30.468Z

Reserved: 2022-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3540

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:14:02.101Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-10-17T16:15:22.960

Modified: 2025-05-13T14:15:19.143

Link: CVE-2022-3540

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-312

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