Threats / Hitachi Vantara / CVE-2022-43769
CVE-2022-43769
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Verified 2026-08-04
Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics (BA) Server vulnerability
Hitachi Vantara Pentaho BA Server contains a template injection vulnerability allowing attackers to execute arbitrary commands via malicious Spring templates in properties files.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
An unauthenticated or low-privileged attacker can inject Spring Expression Language templates into configuration properties, achieving remote code execution on the affected server. The high EPSS score and active exploitation indicate immediate risk.
CISA KEV Yes · 2025-03-035EPSS 0.9767 (verify live)6Exploit Weaponized · public PoC7CVSS 8.83CISA SSVC Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Impact: total4
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreExploit available
Fully weaponized — public exploit code is cataloged for this vulnerability.We link the existence of the exploit; we do not host or redistribute payloads.
Reported exploitation
4 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2025-03-03).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.9767 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
CVSS 8.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) · Affected: Hitachi Vantara, Pentaho Business Analytics (BA) Server. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.CVSS — CNA-assigned (CVE.org), version 3.1, set at disclosure.
Weakness (CWE)
Mapped to CWE-74 CWE-74 — weakness family: Injection.CWE — CNA-assigned (CVE.org); the weakness class drives how the flaw is exploited.
CISA SSVC (triage disposition)
Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalCISA's own stakeholder-specific triage inputs, published in the CVE record (CISA Coordinator role). NOTE: this is CISA's three decision points; the final Act/Attend/Track decision also requires a Mission & Well-being input not published here, so no overall decision is asserted.
Currency of the record
CISA added this to its KEV catalog 700 days after the CVE record was published.KEV lag = CISA-KEV dateAdded − CVE.org datePublished; a floor on how long the known-exploited flaw sat in the public record before the federal catalog listed it. Severity/weakness here is CNA- or CISA-assigned (current at disclosure), independent of NVD's analysis backlog.
Public exploit available
Public exploit tooling is catalogued for this CVE (a functional/weaponized public exploit). Catalog entries: Metasploit module, nuclei template. We link the catalog page(s) only — no payload or code is hosted or restated here.Link, never host — the catalog page is the source; basicsecurity.net does not redistribute payloads.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I identify that Pentaho BA Server processes user-controllable properties files without proper sanitization of template expressions.
Business
Attackers gain a direct path to remote code execution without requiring valid credentials or complex exploitation chains.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I craft a malicious properties file containing Spring template syntax designed to execute system commands when the server parses the configuration.
Business
The server executes arbitrary commands with the privileges of the Pentaho process, compromising data confidentiality and system integrity.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I establish persistent access or pivot to connected systems and data repositories managed by the analytics platform.
Business
Attackers gain control over business intelligence infrastructure, sensitive analytics data, and potentially connected enterprise systems.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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