CVE-2022-3874

CRITICALNVD 8.09.1▲
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 9.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2023-09-22. NVD baseline CVSS 8.0; sources differ by 1.1.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, nvd
9.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 2.2%CVSS: 8.0Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A command injection flaw was found in foreman. This flaw allows an authenticated user with admin privileges on the foreman instance to transpile commands through CoreOS and Fedora CoreOS configurations in templates, possibly resulting in arbitrary command execution on the underlying operating system.

CVSS v3
8.0
EG Score
9.1CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
42
EG Risk 42/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity91% × 45%
Exploitation2% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
2.2%
EPSS %ILE
81st
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

September 22, 2023

Last Modified

November 21, 2024

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Sep 20, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhatMentions a patch (unverified)

2140577 – (CVE-2022-3874) CVE-2022-3874 foreman: OS command injection via ct_command and fcct_command

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2140577
redhatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2022-3874 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-3874

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2022-3874(3)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(4)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatforeman-0:3.7.0.9-1.el8sat2023-11-08redhat
redhatforeman-0:3.3.0.23-1.el8sat2023-10-20redhat
redhatforeman-0:3.5.1.23-1.el8sat2023-10-19redhat
rubygemsforeman—ghsa

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.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2022-3874?
CVE-2022-3874 is a critical vulnerability published on September 22, 2023. A command injection flaw was found in foreman. This flaw allows an authenticated user with admin privileges on the foreman instance to transpile commands through CoreOS and Fedora CoreOS configurations in templates, possibly resulting in arbitrary command execution on the underlying operating…
When was CVE-2022-3874 disclosed?
CVE-2022-3874 was first published on September 22, 2023, with the most recent update on November 21, 2024. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2022-3874 actively exploited?
CVE-2022-3874 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (81st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-3874?
CVE-2022-3874 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.0 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.1 (CRITICAL).
How do I remediate CVE-2022-3874?
A fix for CVE-2022-3874 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2022-3874 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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