CVE-2022-24785 | Path Traversal in Moment.js

Moment.js is a JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. A path traversal vulnerability impacts npm (server) users of Moment.js between versions 1.0.1 and 2.29.1, especially if a user-provided locale string is directly used to switch moment locale. This problem is patched in 2.29.2, and the patch can be applied to all affected versions. As a workaround, sanitize the user-provided locale name before passing it to Moment.js.

Published: 2022-04-04 Last update: 2025-11-03 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2022-24785 is rated Moderate Risk (58.9/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.83%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2022-24785

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-26 2.02% 1.83% -0.19%
2 2026-05-22 2.26% 2.02% -0.24%
3 2026-03-23 — 2.26% —

Full EPSS history (58 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2022-24785

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 3.9 3.6 [email protected]
7.5 3.1 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:H)
They could widely tamper with or forge data—trust in the data is badly hurt.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
 3.9 3.6 [email protected]
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2022-24785

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2022-24785

GHSA-8hfj-j24r-96c4 · Severity: high · Ecosystem: npm — Path Traversal: 'dir/../../filename' in moment.locale

OS Trackers for CVE-2022-24785

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2022-24785 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (node-moment), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-24785
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-24785
suse high CVE-2022-24785 severity important: SUSE including 5 source package names (spacewalk-base, spacewalk-base-minimal, spacewalk-base-minimal-config, spacewalk-html, spacewalk-web), 8 product×package rows across 2 product lines (SUSE Manager Proxy LTS 4.3, SUSE Manager Server LTS 4.3): Known Not Affected 8. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-24785/
ubuntu medium CVE-2022-24785 medium priority: Ubuntu including 2 source packages (nikola, node-moment), 17 status rows across 14 suites (bionic, focal, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 7, released 4, ignored 3, needed 2, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-24785

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2022-24785

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
momentjs moment >= 1.0.1, < 2.29.2 cpe:2.3:a:momentjs:moment:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
momentjs moment >= 1.0.1, < 2.29.2 cpe:2.3:a:momentjs:moment:*:*:*:*:*:nuget:*:*
tenable tenable.sc < 5.21.0 cpe:2.3:a:tenable:tenable.sc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netapp active_iq — cpe:2.3:a:netapp:active_iq:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 35 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
fedoraproject fedora 36 cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 10.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2022-24785

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