CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2022-22532 — Sap Netweaver Application Server Java security vulnerability
In SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java - versions KRNL64NUC 7.22, 7.22EXT, 7.49, KRNL64UC, 7.22, 7.22EXT, 7.49, 7.53, KERNEL 7.22, 7.49, 7.53, an unauthenticated attacker could submit a crafted HTTP server request which triggers improper shared memory buffer handling. This could allow the malicious payload to be executed and hence execute functions that could be impersonating the victim or even steal the victim's logon session.
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.8 (3.1)
- Published
- 2022-02-09
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- java/maven
- Weaknesses
- CWE-444
Affected products
- sap / netweaver_application_server_java / 7.22
- sap / netweaver_application_server_java / 7.49
- sap / netweaver_application_server_java / 7.53
- sap / netweaver_application_server_java / krnl64nuc_7.22
- sap / netweaver_application_server_java / krnl64nuc_7.22ext
- sap / netweaver_application_server_java / krnl64nuc_7.49
Matched remediation archetype
HTTP request smuggling and message-boundary ambiguity
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Check exposure
- Inventory every proxy, CDN, gateway, load balancer, service mesh, and application server hop on affected request paths.
- Compare documented parsing and normalization behavior for message length, transfer coding, duplicate headers, and protocol translation.
- Identify connection reuse and which downstream services trust headers added by intermediaries.
Remediate safely
- Update affected intermediaries and origin servers and align them on a single standards-compliant request framing policy.
- Reject ambiguous length, transfer-coding, duplicate, malformed, and unsupported framing before forwarding.
- Normalize or remove hop-by-hop and identity headers at one controlled boundary and add multi-hop regression tests.
Authoritative sources
Complete CVE record and remediation plan
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