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CVE-2022-48560
Score 7.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2023-08-22. NVD baseline CVSS 7.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5HIGHmedium confidence
- EG Risk
- 39EG Risk 39/100CISA 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 computedSeverity75% × 45%Exploitation2% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high. - EPSS PROB
- 1.8%
- EPSS %ILE
- 77th
- KEV
- Not listed
CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track or Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
Exploitation none (no KEV listing, exploit record or EPSS ≥ 50%) · Automatable unknown (not published for this CVE) · Technical impact partial (CVSS below 9.0). 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
August 22, 2023
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (14)
- cve@mitrehttps://bugs.python.org/issue39421
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00022.html
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00017.html
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JZ5OOBWNYWXFTZDMCGHJVGDLDTHLWITJ/
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VO7Y2YZSDK3UYJD2KBGLXRTGNG6T326J/
- cve@mitrehttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0008/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.python.org/issue39421
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00022.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00017.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JZ5OOBWNYWXFTZDMCGHJVGDLDTHLWITJ/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VO7Y2YZSDK3UYJD2KBGLXRTGNG6T326J/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/JZ5OOBWNYWXFTZDMCGHJVGDLDTHLWITJ/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VO7Y2YZSDK3UYJD2KBGLXRTGNG6T326J/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230929-0008/
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2022-48560(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(8)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | python2.7-minimal (2.7.18-13ubuntu1.5) @ jammy | 2026-05-24 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | python3.5-venv (3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.13+esm10) @ xenial | 2026-05-24 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | python2.7-minimal (2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.18+esm8) @ xenial | 2026-05-24 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | python3.5-venv (3.5.2-2ubuntu0~16.04.13+esm13) @ xenial | 2026-05-24 | ubuntu |
| redhat | python27:2.7-8100020240208011952.5f0f67de | 2024-05-22 | redhat |
| redhat | python3-0:3.6.8-51.el8_8.4 | 2024-01-30 | redhat |
| redhat | python3-0:3.6.8-47.el8_6.4 | 2024-01-25 | redhat |
| redhat | python3-0:3.6.8-56.el8_9.2 | 2024-01-10 | 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 2 ecosystems)
Debian:10(2)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python2.7 | 2.7.16-2, 2.7.16-2+deb10u1, 2.7.16-2+deb10u2 | 2.7.16-2+deb10u3 | — |
| python3.7 | 3.7.3-2 ... 3.7.3-2+deb10u5 (6 versions) | 3.7.3-2+deb10u6 | — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| python2.7 | 2.7.18-8 | 2.7.18-8+deb11u1 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(7)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2024:0114MODERATE2023-08-22
RHSA-2024:0114 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:0586MODERATE2023-08-22
RHSA-2024:0586 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:2987MODERATE2023-08-22
RHSA-2024:2987 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-6394-1MEDIUM
Python vulnerability
- UbuntuUSN-6394-2MEDIUM
Python vulnerability
- UbuntuUSN-6891-1MEDIUM
Python vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-7180-1MEDIUM
Python vulnerabilities
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 3× in last 7d / 19× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
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