CVE-2022-38656 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

HCL Commerce, when using Elasticsearch, can allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service attack on the site and make administrative changes.

Published: 2022-11-04

Score: 8.6 High

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

HCL Software

HCL Commerce

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`9.1.8 - 9.1.11`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:hcltechsw:hcl_commerce:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-41229	HCL Commerce, when using Elasticsearch, can allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service attack on the site and make administrative changes.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00692.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://support.hcltechsw.com/csm?id=kb_article&sysparm_article=KB0101265

History

Fri, 02 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

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

Subscriptions

Hcltechsw Hcl Commerce

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: HCL

Published: 2022-11-04T20:58:47.868Z

Updated: 2025-05-02T18:35:00.618Z

Reserved: 2022-08-22T16:31:27.394Z

Link: CVE-2022-38656

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T11:02:14.380Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-12T13:15:14.470

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:16:52.520

Link: CVE-2022-38656

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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