mailcow before 2022-05d allows a remote authenticated user to inject OS commands and escalate privileges to domain admin via the --debug option in conjunction with the ---PIPEMESS option in Sync Jobs.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2022-31245 is rated High Exploit Risk (86.1/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 25.05%, 96th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.31% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | nvd_ref | exploit_tag | Exploit-DB ↗ |
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 | 2026-03-14 | 22.74% | 25.05% | +2.31% |
| 2 | 2025-11-21 | 27.28% | 22.74% | -4.54% |
| 3 | 2025-11-18 | — | 27.28% | — |
Full EPSS history (25 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8.8 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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2.8 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
| 9.0 | 2.0 | HIGH |
|
8.0 | 10.0 | [email protected] |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| mailcow | mailcow:_dockerized | < 2022-05d | cpe:2.3:a:mailcow:mailcow\:_dockerized:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/ly1g3/Mailcow-CVE-2022-31245 | Exploit Patch Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/releases/tag/2022-05d | Patch Release Notes Third Party Advisory |