CVE-2022-23532
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2023-01-14
- Fixed in4.4.0.12 · 4.3.0.12
- WeaknessCWE-22
Am I affected?
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Description
APOC (Awesome Procedures on Cypher) is an add-on library for Neo4j that provides hundreds of procedures and functions. A path traversal vulnerability found in the apoc.export.* procedures of apoc plugins in Neo4j Graph database. The issue allows a malicious actor to potentially break out of the expected directory. The vulnerability is such that files could only be created but not overwritten. For the vulnerability to be exploited, an attacker would need access to execute an arbitrary query, either by having access to an authenticated Neo4j client, or a Cypher injection vulnerability in an application. The minimum versions containing patch for this vulnerability are 4.4.0.12 and 4.3.0.12 and 5.3.1. As a workaround, you can control the allowlist of the procedures that can be used in your system, and/or turn off local file access by setting apoc.export.file.enabled=false.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2023-01-1401:15CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 21:37 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2022-23532?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2022-23532?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD · OSV| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | ≥ 4.4.0.0, < 4.4.0.12 | 4.4.0.12 | NVD · OSV |
| 4.3 | < 4.3.0.12 | 4.3.0.12 | NVD · OSV |
| 5.3 | = 5.3.0 | no fix published | NVD |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
- Update Neo4j awesome procedures on cyper to 4.4.0.12 · 4.3.0.12
Advisories and patches
- github.comPatch
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Published
- 2023-01-14
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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