CVE-2022-43769Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server - Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 97.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.1% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 3 Mar 2025
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 3 Mar 2025.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module, a Nuclei template and an Exploit-DB entry for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- Pentaho Business Server Auth Bypass and Server Side Template Injection RCE (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/http/pentaho_business_server_authbypass_and_sstiRank excellentdisclosed 4 Apr 2023
Nuclei templates1 template
- Hitachi Pentaho Business Analytics Server - Remote Code Execution (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-43769.yamlSeverity high
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Pentaho BA Server EE 9.3.0.0-428 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) (Unauthenticated) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 51350webapps, jsppublished 8 Apr 2023Not verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By HITVAN
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 23 months later
· 23 months later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
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 (12 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.
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
References3
- 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)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-46739 (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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