decode-uri-component 0.2.0 is vulnerable to Improper Input Validation resulting in DoS.
Priority HIGH 66CWE-20Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 10 fixed, 25 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CISA ADP. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat.
Summary
decode-uri-component 0.2.0 is vulnerable to Improper Input Validation resulting in DoS.
Why it matters now
Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.2361 97th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 2 exploit referencesTagged by NVD
Fix Partial decode-uri-component (npm): 0.2.1Red Hat: 8 advisoriesRed Hat: 10 fixed, 25 without a fix
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- Poc
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | all versions | — | No fix listed | CNA |
| — | decode-uri-component (npm) | before 0.2.1 | 0.2.1 | Patch available | GHSA-w573-4hg7-7wgq |
- — Vendor— Affected all versions Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
- decode-uri-component (npm) Vendor— Affected before 0.2.1 Fixed in 0.2.1 Patch available GHSA-w573-4hg7-7wgq
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:decode-uri-component_project:decode-uri-component:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 0.2.0 | Vulnerable | Decode-uri-component Project |
- cpe:2.3:a:decode-uri-component_project:decode-uri-component:0.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 0.2.0 Vulnerable ·Decode-uri-component Project
Remediation
- Fix · GHSA-w573-4hg7-7wgq decode-uri-component (npm) Fixed in 0.2.1 Advisory →
Red Hat 8 advisories
- RHSA-2023:6316 Released 2023-11-07 · Red Hat rating Lowpcs security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (v. 9) pcs-0.11.6-3.el9, pcs-snmp-0.11.6-3.el9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (v. 9) pcs-0.11.6-3.el9, pcs-snmp-0.11.6-3.el9
- RHSA-2023:4983 Released 2023-09-05 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat Process Automation Manager 7.13.4 security update
- RHPAM 7.13.4 async
- RHSA-2023:3742 Released 2023-06-21 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.13.0 security and bug fix update
- RHODF 4.13 for RHEL 9 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9, odf4/mcg-core-rhel9, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator +7
Show 5 more Red Hat advisories
- RHSA-2023:1744 Released 2023-04-12 · Red Hat rating Importantrh-nodejs14-nodejs security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL Workstation(v. 7) rh-nodejs14-3.6-2.el7, rh-nodejs14-nodejs-14.21.3-2.el7, rh-nodejs14-nodejs-devel-14.21.3-2.el7 +5
- Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL(v. 7) rh-nodejs14-3.6-2.el7, rh-nodejs14-nodejs-14.21.3-2.el7, rh-nodejs14-nodejs-devel-14.21.3-2.el7 +5
- RHSA-2023:1742 Released 2023-04-12 · Red Hat rating Importantnodejs:14 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) nodejs-1:14.21.3-1.module+el8.6.0+18532+cbe6f646.aarch64::nodejs:14, nodejs-1:14.21.3-1.module+el8.6.0+18532+cbe6f646.ppc64le::nodejs:14, nodejs-1:14.21.3-1.module+el8.6.0+18532+cbe6f646.s390x::nodejs:14 +19
- RHSA-2023:1743 Released 2023-04-12 · Red Hat rating Importantnodejs:14 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) nodejs-1:14.21.3-1.module+el8.7.0+18531+81d21ca6.aarch64::nodejs:14, nodejs-1:14.21.3-1.module+el8.7.0+18531+81d21ca6.ppc64le::nodejs:14, nodejs-1:14.21.3-1.module+el8.7.0+18531+81d21ca6.s390x::nodejs:14 +19
- RHSA-2023:1533 Released 2023-03-30 · Red Hat rating Importantnodejs:14 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4) nodejs-1:14.21.3-1.module+el8.4.0+18317+43f5ac16.aarch64::nodejs:14, nodejs-1:14.21.3-1.module+el8.4.0+18317+43f5ac16.ppc64le::nodejs:14, nodejs-1:14.21.3-1.module+el8.4.0+18317+43f5ac16.s390x::nodejs:14 +19
- RHSA-2023:1428 Released 2023-03-23 · Red Hat rating ImportantMigration Toolkit for Containers (MTC) 1.7.8 security and bug fix update
- 8Base-RHMTC-1.7 rhmtc/openshift-migration-controller-rhel8, rhmtc/openshift-migration-ui-rhel8
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Migration Toolkit for Applications 6 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Migration Toolkit for Virtualization | Affected | No fix yet |
| OpenShift Developer Tools and Services | Affected | No fix yet |
| OpenShift Pipelines | Affected | No fix yet |
| OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat A-MQ Online | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 3 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Discovery 1 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS) | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift GitOps | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Process Automation 7 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat Quay 3 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2 | Affected | No fix yet |
| 8Base-RHMTC-1.7 | Fixed | RHSA-2023:1428 |
| RHODF 4.13 for RHEL 9 | Fixed | RHSA-2023:3742 |
| RHPAM 7.13.4 async | Fixed | RHSA-2023:4983 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:1743 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.4) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:1533 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.8.6) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:1742 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (v. 9) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:6316 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (v. 9) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:6316 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL Workstation(v. 7) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:1744 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for RHEL(v. 7) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:1744 |
Not affected: 15 products
- 8Base-RHMTC-1.7
- Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift
- OpenShift Service Mesh 2
- OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1
- RHODF 4.13 for RHEL 9
- Red Hat Data Grid 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat Fuse 7
- Red Hat Integration Camel K 1
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack
- Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
- Red Hat Satellite 6
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-38900
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-w573-4hg7-7wgq
References
Exploit 2
Advisory 6
Other 8
- https://github.com/SamVerschueren/decode-uri-component/commit/746ca5dcb6667c5d364e782d53c542830e4c10b9
- https://github.com/SamVerschueren/decode-uri-component
- https://github.com/SamVerschueren/decode-uri-component/releases/tag/v0.2.1
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ERN6YE3DS7NBW7UH44SCJBMNC2NWQ7SM
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KAC5KQ2SEWAMQ6UZAUBZ5KXKEOESH375
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/QABOUA2I542UTANVZIVFKWMRYVHLV32D
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UW4SCMT3SEUFVIL7YIADQ5K36GJEO6I5
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/VNV2GNZXOTEDAJRFH3ZYWRUBGIVL7BSU
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Sources
- CVE-2022-38900 · CVE Program
- CVE-2022-38900 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-w573-4hg7-7wgq · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2022-38900 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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