Proxmox Mail GatewayApplication · Proxmox

CVE-2022-35507

HIGH · 7.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2022-12-04
Fix available
A fix is available. Upgrade to 4.1-3 or later.
See remediation →
78/100
Remediation priority · High
Public exploit Remotely reachable No privileges Patch available

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
A response-header CRLF injection vulnerability in the Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE) and Proxmox Mail Gateway (PMG) web interface allows a remote attacker to set cookies for a victim's browser that are longer than the server expects, causing a client-side DoS. This affects Chromium-based browsers because they allow injection of response headers with %0d. This is fixed in pve-http-server 4.1-3.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis
How this class of weakness works · CWE-74

Untrusted input crosses into a downstream interpreter — SQL, a shell, an HTML page, an LDAP query — without being kept separate from the commands around it, so the attacker's data is read as instructions. This is the parent class behind SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and command injection alike. The durable fix is the same everywhere: keep data and code apart at every boundary, using parameterisation or context-aware encoding rather than building interpreted strings by concatenation.

General guidance for the injection class — the official description and references above are authoritative for this specific CVE. Want a bespoke review and a reviewed fix? Ask our team →

Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.

NVD · CPE data
Proxmox Mail GatewayApplication
Affected:all versions
Pve Http ServerWeb server / proxy
Affected:< 4.1-3
Virtual EnvironmentApplication
Affected:all versions

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.

dbcve · scoped
Upgrade available Upgrade to 4.1-3 or later
Fixed in 4.1-3
Vendor patch starlabs.sg →
Recommended fix High confidence

pve-http-server 4.1-3

  1. Update the Proxmox package repository by running 'apt-get update'
  2. Upgrade the pve-http-server package to version 4.1-3 or later using 'apt-get install pve-http-server'
  3. Restart the pve-http-server service to apply the changes using 'systemctl restart pve-http-server'
  4. Verify the installed version is 4.1-3 or higher using 'dpkg -l pve-http-server'
Caveat Standard package upgrade risk - test in staging first

Generated from the published advisory — verify against the referenced sources before acting.

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