CVE-2022-43939Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server - Use of Non-Canonical URL Paths for Authorization Decisions
- 8.6HighCVSS base score
- 92.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.2% 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 versions before 9.4.0.1 and 9.3.0.2, including 8.3.x contain security restrictions using non-canonical URLs which can be circumvented.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Hitachi Vantara Pentaho BA Server Authorization Bypass 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 - Bypass Authorization (Nuclei template) (opens in a new tab)
http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-43939.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 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 92.3% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.6.
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/14455394120333--Resolved-Pentaho-BA-Server-Use-of-Non-Canonical-URL-Paths-for-Authorization-Decisions-Versions-before-9-4-0-1-and-9-3-0-2-including-8-3-x-Impacted-CVE-2022-43939- (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-2022-43939 (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-2022-46909 (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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