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CVE-2022-4721: Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in ikus060/rdiffweb

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-12-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-75

Description

Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection) in GitHub repository ikus060/rdiffweb prior to 2.5.5.

Affected products

• ikus060/rdiffweb: before 2.5.5 — fixed in 2.5.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ikus060/rdiffweb 2.5.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb/commit/6afaae56a29536f0118b3380d296c416aa6d078d
• https://huntr.dev/bounties/3c48ef5d-da4d-4ee4-aaca-af65e7273720
• https://github.com/ikus060/rdiffweb/commit/6afaae56a29536f0118b3380d296c416aa6d078d
• https://huntr.dev/bounties/3c48ef5d-da4d-4ee4-aaca-af65e7273720

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