CVE-2022-38114

Client-Side Desync Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 6.1 Medium
Published: Nov 23, 2022
Updated: Apr 25, 2025
Reserved: Aug 9, 2022

Description

This vulnerability occurs when a web server fails to correctly process the Content-Length of POST requests. This can lead to HTTP request smuggling or XSS.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.1 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	SolarWinds

Weaknesses

CWE-444 Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling')
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
SolarWinds SEMSolarWinds	2022.2 and previous versions to before 2022.4 Affected

References

https://documentation.solarwinds.com/en/success_center/sem/content/release_notes/sem_2022-4_release_notes.htm
https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center/security-advisories/CVE-2022-38114

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