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CVE-2022-45866

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-11-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

qpress before PierreLvx/qpress 20220819 and before version 11.3, as used in Percona XtraBackup and other products, allows directory traversal via ../ in a .qp file.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 35, 36, 37
• Qpress Project Qpress: before 11.3 — fixed in 11.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Qpress Project Qpress 11.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/EvgeniyPatlan/qpress/commit/ddb312090ebd5794e81bc6fb1dfb4e79eda48761
• https://github.com/PierreLvx/qpress/compare/20170415...20220819
• https://github.com/PierreLvx/qpress/pull/6
• https://github.com/percona/percona-xtrabackup/pull/1366
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BQWF7635AJSDKEIGLB73XAH643POGTFY/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G4RXO3VYIFRTNIFHWIAZWND6ZXQ5OYOB/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UUZ73XT2FXLHC7I4ODLOVB4O4QN7Q7JB/
• https://pkgs.org/download/qpress
• https://github.com/EvgeniyPatlan/qpress/commit/ddb312090ebd5794e81bc6fb1dfb4e79eda48761
• https://github.com/PierreLvx/qpress/compare/20170415...20220819
• https://github.com/PierreLvx/qpress/pull/6
• https://github.com/percona/percona-xtrabackup/pull/1366

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