CVE-2022-38212
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 · uneditedProtections against potential Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities in Esri Portal for ArcGIS versions 10.8.1 and below were not fully honored and may allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to forge requests to arbitrary URLs from the system, potentially leading to network enumeration or reading from hosts inside the network perimeter, a different issue than CVE-2022-38211 and CVE-2022-38203.
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 · high confidenceEsri Portal for ArcGIS versions 10.8.1 and below contains incomplete SSRF protection mechanisms that can be bypassed, allowing remote unauthenticated attackers to craft arbitrary HTTP requests from the server. This enables network reconnaissance and access to internal resources behind the firewall.
Verify against the referenced sources before acting — the references below are authoritative for this CVE, this summary is not.
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<= 10.8.1CVSS 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
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify Esri Portal for ArcGIS versionAccess the ArcGIS Portal Administrator Directory at https://[hostname]:7443/arcgis/portal/admin and navigate to System > Properties > Show Advanced Options, or check the About page at https://[hostname]:7443/arcgis/home/about.htmlAffected if The displayed version is 10.8.1 or lower
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Verify Portal installation via Windows RegistryOn Windows servers, open Registry Editor and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ESRI\ArcGIS\Portal, checking the "Version" valueAffected if The registry version value shows 10.8.1 or lower
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Check Linux installation version fileOn Linux installations, check the version file typically located at /opt/arcgis/portal/framework/.version or /home/arcgis/portal/framework/.versionAffected if The version file shows 10.8.1 or lower
You are affected if your Esri Portal for ArcGIS installation shows version 10.8.1 or lower, as this version range contains the incomplete SSRF protection that can be bypassed.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
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.
From vendor dataUpgrade Esri Portal for ArcGIS to version 10.9.1 or later. Additionally, implement network segmentation and restrictive outbound firewall rules to limit the impact of any SSRF exploitation.
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2022-38212 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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