CVE-2022-35689 — community-edition
MEDIUMCVE-2022-35689 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) CWE-284 vulnerability in magento/community-edition. A fix is available for magento/community-edition — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Adobe Commerce Improper Access Control Security feature bypass
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation observed yet
- CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
- CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for CVE-2022-35689.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
Where this sits among everything scored
Real-World Exposure
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Description
Adobe Commerce versions 2.4.3-p3 (and earlier), 2.4.4-p1 (and earlier) and 2.4.5 (and earlier) are affected by an Improper Access Control vulnerability that could result in a Security feature bypass. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to impact the availability of a user's minor feature. Exploitation of this issue does not require user interaction.
Affected Packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | ≥ 2.4.4-p1&&< 2.4.4-p2 | 2.4.4-p2composer require magento/community-edition:^2.4.4-p2 |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | all versions | No fix |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | all versions | No fix |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | ≥ 2.4.3-p1 | No fix |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/community-edition | all versions | No fix |
| 🐘Packagist | magento/project-community-edition | all versions | No fix |
Affected Products
commerceadobemagento open sourceadobeDetection & mitigation playbook
Open-source dependencyDetect
Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for magento/community-edition, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.
Fix
Update magento/community-edition to 2.4.4-p2 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2022-35689 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.
Workarounds
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is CVE-2022-35689 in your dependencies?
Find it across Packagist, including transitive dependencies.