Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2022-21952 lets an unauthenticated remote attacker consume disk resources on affected SUSE Manager Server instances, causing a denial of service. The business impact is availability loss for systems management operations. There is no source-provided evidence of active exploitation or CISA KEV listing in the supplied data.
Executive priority
Treat as a high-priority availability risk for affected SUSE Manager environments. Prioritize patching if the server is network-exposed or operationally critical, because exploitation requires no authentication.
Technical view
The flaw is missing authentication for a critical function in SUSE Manager Server spacewalk-java. A remote, unauthenticated, low-complexity attacker can exhaust disk resources. Affected versions are SUSE Manager Server 4.1 spacewalk-java before 4.1.46 and SUSE Manager Server 4.2 spacewalk-java before 4.2.37. CVSS 3.1 score is 7.5, availability impact high.
Likely exposure
Exposure is limited to organizations running SUSE Manager Server 4.1 or 4.2 with vulnerable spacewalk-java versions reachable over a network. Internet-facing or broadly reachable management servers carry higher operational risk.
Exploitation context
The CVSS vector indicates network attack, no privileges, no user interaction, and low attack complexity. The supplied sources do not show active exploitation, public exploit availability, or KEV inclusion.
Researcher notes
Mapped weaknesses are CWE-306 and CWE-770. The core issue is unauthenticated access to functionality that can drive uncontrolled resource consumption. Evidence in the supplied bundle identifies affected branches and fixed package thresholds but does not include exploit details.
Mitigation direction
- Upgrade SUSE Manager Server 4.1 spacewalk-java to 4.1.46 or later.
- Upgrade SUSE Manager Server 4.2 spacewalk-java to 4.2.37 or later.
- Review SUSE advisory or Bugzilla guidance for deployment-specific instructions.
- Restrict network access to SUSE Manager Server until remediation is complete.
Validation and detection
- Inventory SUSE Manager Server 4.1 and 4.2 deployments.
- Check installed spacewalk-java package versions against fixed thresholds.
- Confirm management interfaces are not unnecessarily exposed to untrusted networks.
- Monitor disk utilization and service availability for abnormal resource consumption.
Public sources used
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- High
- CVSS
- 7.5 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H3.93.6suseVulnerability scoring details
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7.5HighVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199512CVE reference, suse
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