CVE-2022-22333
IBM Sterling Secure Proxy 6.0.3.0, 6.0.2.0, and 3.4.3.2 and IBM Sterling External Authentication Server are vulnerable a buffer overflow,…
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Description
IBM Sterling Secure Proxy 6.0.3.0, 6.0.2.0, and 3.4.3.2 and IBM Sterling External Authentication Server are vulnerable a buffer overflow, due to the Jetty based GUI in the Secure Zone not properly validating the sizes of the form content and/or HTTP headers submitted. A local attacker positioned inside the Secure Zone could submit a specially crafted HTTP request to disrupt service. IBM X-Force ID: 219133.
Timeline
ID reserved
By ibm
- 51 days later
· 51 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibmCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/A:H/S:U/I:N/C:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/RC:C/E:U/RL:O |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.58% · top 52% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Weakness
- Denial of Service
- CWE-120 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-120 and its CVEs
Affected products
- affected 3.4.3.2
- affected 6.0.3.0
- affected 6.0.2.0
References (2)
- https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6558796 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ibm-sterling-cve202222333-dos (219133) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2022-22333)Record last updated .