CVE-2022-23134 — zabbix
MEDIUMCVE-2022-23134 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) CWE-284 vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-02-22) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-02-22. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2022-03-08.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2022-23134.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2022-23134 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the ≥ 90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
After the initial setup process, some steps of setup.php file are reachable not only by super-administrators, but by unauthenticated users as well. Malicious actor can pass step checks and potentially change the configuration of Zabbix Frontend.
Affected Products
debian linuxdebianfedorafedoraprojectzabbixzabbixResearch use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.
Detection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Remediation status
No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2022-23134 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Put an independent control in front of the weakness: restrict the affected endpoint or interface to trusted networks, require an additional authentication factor or proxy-level check, and invalidate existing sessions and credentials in case the flaw has already been used.
How to detect CVE-2022-23134
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2022-23134 -u https://target- Template
- Zabbix Setup Configuration Authentication Bypass
- Severity
- medium
- Impact
- Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information and potential compromise of the Zabbix setup configuration.
- Remediation
- Apply the latest security patches or updates provided by Zabbix to fix the authentication bypass vulnerability.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (bananabr), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
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