CVE-2022-43769
Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server - Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- HITVAN
Description
Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server prior to versions 9.4.0.1 and 9.3.0.2, including 8.3.x allow certain web services to set property values which contain Spring templates that are interpreted downstream.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Hitachi Vantara Pentaho BA Server Special Element Injection Vulnerability.
- Added
- 3 Mar 2025
- Fix due (US federal)
- 24 Mar 2025
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| HITVANCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 97.7% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
Hitachi Vantara · Pentaho Business Analytics Server
- affected 1.0 – < 9.3.0.2
- affected 9.4.0.0 – < 9.4.0.1
References (3)
- https://support.pentaho.com/hc/en-us/articles/14455561548301--Resolved-Pentaho-BA-Server-Failure-to-Sanitize-Special-Elements-into-a-Different-Plane-Special-Element-Injection-Versions-before-9-4-0-1-and-9-3-0-2-including-8-3-x-Impacted-CVE-2022-43769- (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172296/Pentaho-Business-Server-Authentication-Bypass-SSTI-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-43769 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
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)
- CISA KEV catalog (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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