NATS nats-server before 2.7.2 has Incorrect Access Control. Any authenticated user can obtain the privileges of the System account by misusing the "dynamically provisioned sandbox accounts" feature.
CVE-2022-24450
This high-severity CVE scores 8.8 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.7%, top 29% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 8.8
- EG Score
- 8.8(medium)
- EPSS
- 67.2%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
February 8, 2022
Last Modified
March 30, 2026
References (4)
- cve@mitrehttps://advisories.nats.io/CVE/CVE-2022-24450.txt
- cve@mitrehttps://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/releases/tag/v2.7.2
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://advisories.nats.io/CVE/CVE-2022-24450.txt
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/nats-io/nats-server/releases/tag/v2.7.2
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2022-24450(5)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2022:5201Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.4.5 security updates and bug fixes
- RHSA-2022:4956Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.5 security updates, images, and bug fixes
- RHSA-2022:1681Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.4.4 security updates and bug fixes
- RHSA-2022:1476Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.4.3 security updates and bug fixes
- RHSA-2022:0735Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management 2.4.2 security updates and bug fixes
Patch Availability(1)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | rhacm2/thanos-rhel8:v2.5.0-17 | 2022-06-09 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(3 across 1 ecosystem)
Go(3)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| github.com/nats-io/nats-server | — | — | — |
| github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 | — | 2.7.2 | — |
| github.com/nats-io/nats-streaming-server | — | 0.24.1 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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