Fossil 2.18 on Windows allows attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an XSS payload in a ticket. This occurs because the ticket data is stored in a temporary file, and the product does not properly handle the absence of this file after Windows Defender has flagged it as malware.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2022-34009 is rated Exploit Available (54.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.26%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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 | 2025-07-29 | 0.05% | 0.26% | +0.21% |
| 2 | 2023-08-29 | 0.04% | 0.05% | +0.01% |
| 3 | 2023-03-07 | — | 0.04% | — |
Full EPSS history (4 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5.5 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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1.8 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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unimportant | CVE-2022-34009 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (fossil), 4 status rows across 4 suites (bookworm, bullseye, sid, trixie): resolved 4. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-34009 |
ubuntu
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medium | CVE-2022-34009 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (fossil), 13 status rows across 13 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): ignored 6, needs-triage 6, not-affected 1. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-34009 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| fossil-scm | fossil | 2.18 | cpe:2.3:a:fossil-scm:fossil:2.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/changes.wiki | Vendor Advisory |
| https://gainsec.com/2022/07/27/cve-2022-34009/ | Exploit Third Party Advisory |