CVE-2022-46773· NVD / CVE Program· CNA ibm

IBM Robotic Process Automation security bypass

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 26/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.50% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: IBM Robotic Process Automation 21.0.7.
Severity is disputed: the assigning authority (CNA) scores it 4.3, NVD 6.5.
Mentioned 1 time in Turkish national cyber security advisories (siberguvenlik.gov.tr).

Low priority for now. Upgrade to IBM Robotic Process Automation 21.0.7 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

IBM Robotic Process Automation 21.0.0 - 21.0.7 and 23.0.0 is vulnerable to client-side validation bypass for credential pools. Invalid credential pools may be created as a result. IBM X-Force ID: 242951.

MediumCVSS 6.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

Auth bypass

Published: Mar 15, 2023
Updated: Jun 17, 2026
EPSS: 0.5% · 42th percentile
CWE: CWE-287

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 26 / 40 · 6.5 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.5%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 6.5
CNA · ibm: 4.3; 2.2 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
ibm	robotic process automation	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:robotic_process_automation
ibm	robotic process automation as a service	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:robotic_process_automation_as_a_service
ibm	robotic process automation for cloud pak	cpe:2.3:a:ibm:robotic_process_automation_for_cloud_pak

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

ibm robotic process automation21.0.0 and later · before 21.0.7.1
ibm robotic process automation23.0.0
ibm robotic process automation as a servicebefore 23.0.1
ibm robotic process automation for cloud pak21.0.0 and later · before 21.0.7.1
ibm robotic process automation for cloud pak23.0.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (ibm). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

IBM Robotic Process Automation
- 23.0.0affected
- 21.0.0 and later · before 21.0.7affected · semver

Same product

ibm: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2023-43058IBM Robotic Process Automation privilege escalation
39Monitor
CVE-2023-38734IBM Robotic Process Automation privilege escalation
39Monitor
CVE-2022-22413IBM Robotic Process Automation 21.0.0, 21.0.1, and 21.0.2 is vulnerable to SQL injection.
39Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2023-22594Jan 18, 2023 · IBM Robotic Process Automation for Cloud Pak cross-site scripting
21Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2023-22863Jan 18, 2023 · IBM Robotic Process Automation information disclosure
23Monitor
Later →CVE-2023-25680Mar 15, 2023 · IBM Robotic Process Automation information disclosure
26Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
IBM Robotic Process Automation	21.0.7	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

IBMHackerOne · disclosure only (VDP)

The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.

National notice (Türkiye Cybersecurity Directorate / USOM)

Official security notices citing this record; remediation advice is on the agency's page.

TR-23-0587 · Oct 17, 2023(IBM Güvenlik Bildirimi)

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Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: none
Integrity: high · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: none

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: High
Availability impact: None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-287 · Improper Authentication

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

nvd-primary

Root cause

Authentication is added route by route instead of being enforced in one place. When a route added later bypasses the shared middleware, the session check never runs for it.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-287 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1app.use("/admin", requireSession, adminRouter);
2

3// Route added later skips the middleware
4app.post("/admin-api/config", updateConfig);

Fixed

1const admin = express.Router();
2admin.use(requireSession, requireRole("admin"));
3

4admin.post("/config", updateConfig);
5app.use("/admin", admin);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

ATT&CK techniques

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

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References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/242951

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www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6962155

Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.

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