CVE-2022-50973
CRITICALCVE-2022-50973 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) Unrestricted File Upload vulnerability. The records list no fixed version yet; check the vendor advisory below and apply the mitigations in the meantime.
Yonyou KSOA 9.0 contains an unauthenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the com.sksoft.bill.ImageUpload servlet that allows unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary…
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.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
- 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-2022-50973.
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
Description
Yonyou KSOA 9.0 contains an unauthenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the com.sksoft.bill.ImageUpload servlet that allows unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files by submitting a POST request with attacker-controlled filepath and filename parameters without any authentication, file type, extension, or content validation. Attackers can upload a JSP webshell by specifying a malicious filename and root filepath, with the uploaded file stored under the pictures directory and directly executed by the web server, resulting in unauthenticated remote code execution. Exploitation evidence was first observed by the Shadowserver Foundation on 2023-11-07 (UTC).
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
The records we use list no fixed release for CVE-2022-50973. Check the upstream advisory for a patched version, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Treat uploaded files as untrusted until proven otherwise: validate the actual content type rather than the supplied extension, store uploads outside the web root on a volume mounted without execute permission, and rename them to server-generated identifiers so an attacker cannot choose the path a request will later resolve.
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