CVE-2022-0074

Privilege Escalation in OpenLiteSpeed Web Server

State: Published
Severity: 8.8 High
Published: Oct 27, 2022
Updated: May 9, 2025
Reserved: Dec 28, 2021

Description

Untrusted Search Path vulnerability in LiteSpeed Technologies OpenLiteSpeed Web Server and LiteSpeed Web Server Container allows Privilege Escalation. This affects versions from 1.6.15 before 1.7.16.1.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	palo_alto

Weaknesses

CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path

Affected Products

Product	Versions
OpenLiteSpeed Web ServerLiteSpeed Technologies	1.6.15 to before 1.7.16.1Affected
LiteSpeed Web ServerLiteSpeed Technologies	1.6.15 to before 1.7.16.1Affected

References

https://github.com/litespeedtech/ols-dockerfiles/blob/master/template/Dockerfile#L29

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