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CVE-2022-39291: Denial of service through logs in zoneminder

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-10-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

ZoneMinder is a free, open source Closed-circuit television software application. Affected versions of zoneminder are subject to a vulnerability which allows users with "View" system permissions to inject new data into the logs stored by Zoneminder. This was observed through an HTTP POST request containing log information to the "/zm/index.php" endpoint. Submission is not rate controlled and could affect database performance and/or consume all storage resources. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Affected products

• zoneminder: before 1.36.27; from 1.37.0 (excl.) before 1.37.24 — fixed in 1.36.27, 1.37.24

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: zoneminder 1.36.27, 1.37.24. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171498/Zoneminder-Log-Injection-XSS-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
• https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/34ffd92bf123070cab6c83ad4cfe6297dd0ed0b4
• https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/73d9f2482cdcb238506388798d3cf92546f9e40c
• https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/cb3fc5907da21a5111ae54128a5d0b49ae755e9b
• https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/de2866f9574a2bf2690276fad53c91d607825408
• https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/security/advisories/GHSA-cfcx-v52x-jh74
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/171498/Zoneminder-Log-Injection-XSS-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
• https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/34ffd92bf123070cab6c83ad4cfe6297dd0ed0b4
• https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/73d9f2482cdcb238506388798d3cf92546f9e40c
• https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/cb3fc5907da21a5111ae54128a5d0b49ae755e9b
• https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/commit/de2866f9574a2bf2690276fad53c91d607825408
• https://github.com/ZoneMinder/zoneminder/security/advisories/GHSA-cfcx-v52x-jh74

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