CVE-2022-43769: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho BA Server Special Element Injection Vulnerability

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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Name: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho BA Server Special Element Injection Vulnerability
Vendor: Hitachi Vantara
Product: Pentaho Business Analytics (BA) Server
Added to the catalog: 2025-03-03
Due date for US federal agencies: 2025-03-24
Weaknesses: CWE-74
Catalog version: 2026.10.30

Hitachi Vantara Pentaho BA Server contains a special element injection vulnerability that allows an attacker to inject Spring templates into properties files, allowing for arbitrary command execution.

Required action (CISA)

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Ransomware use: CISA does not mark known use of this vulnerability in ransomware campaigns.

Links in CISA's notes

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NVD analysis

Status: Analyzed
Published: 2023-04-03T18:15:07.703
Last modified: 2026-06-17T05:07:17.553
Weaknesses: CWE-74, CWE-94

Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server prior to versions 9.4.0.1 and 9.3.0.2, including 8.3.x allow certain web services to set property values which contain Spring templates that are interpreted downstream.

Metric	Score	Severity	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	8.8	HIGH	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	[email protected] (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	7.2	HIGH	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	[email protected] (Primary)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172296/Pentaho-Business-Server-Authentication-Bypass-SSTI-Code-Execution.html (Exploit)
https://support.pentaho.com/hc/en-us/articles/14455561548301--Resolved-Pentaho-BA-Server-Failure-to-Sanitize-Special-Elements-into-a-Different-Plane-Special-Element-Injection-Versions-before-9-4-0-1-and-9-3-0-2-including-8-3-x-Impacted-CVE-2022-43769- (Vendor Advisory)
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172296/Pentaho-Business-Server-Authentication-Bypass-SSTI-Code-Execution.html (Exploit)
https://support.pentaho.com/hc/en-us/articles/14455561548301--Resolved-Pentaho-BA-Server-Failure-to-Sanitize-Special-Elements-into-a-Different-Plane-Special-Element-Injection-Versions-before-9-4-0-1-and-9-3-0-2-including-8-3-x-Impacted-CVE-2022-43769- (Vendor Advisory)
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-43769 (US Government Resource)

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CVE record

Title (CNA): Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server - Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)
Assigner: HITVAN
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-04-03T17:47:45.737Z
Updated: 2025-10-21T23:15:21.447Z
Problem types: CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

References

https://support.pentaho.com/hc/en-us/articles/14455561548301--Resolved-Pentaho-BA-Server-Failure-to-Sanitize-Special-Elements-into-a-Different-Plane-Special-Element-Injection-Versions-before-9-4-0-1-and-9-3-0-2-including-8-3-x-Impacted-CVE-2022-43769-
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172296/Pentaho-Business-Server-Authentication-Bypass-SSTI-Code-Execution.html

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Defensive techniques (MITRE D3FEND)

D3FEND maps these defensive techniques to the weakness (CWE) that NVD lists for this CVE, through the digital artifacts the weakness affects. D3FEND does not say they stop this vulnerability.

CWE-74: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')

Model: Software Inventory (acts on Software)
Harden: Credential Scrubbing (acts on Subroutine)
Isolate: Application-based Process Isolation (acts on Subroutine)
Harden: Software Update (acts on Software)
Harden: Trusted Library (acts on Subroutine)
Restore: Restore Software (acts on Software)
Model: Asset Vulnerability Enumeration (acts on Software)
Harden: Variable Initialization (acts on Subroutine)
Harden: Domain Logic Validation (acts on Subroutine)

D3FEND ontology version 1.6.0.

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CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Harden: Credential Scrubbing (acts on Subroutine)
Restore: Restore Software (acts on Software)
Harden: Domain Logic Validation (acts on Subroutine)
Model: Software Inventory (acts on Software)
Harden: Software Update (acts on Software)
Harden: Trusted Library (acts on Subroutine)
Harden: Variable Initialization (acts on Subroutine)
Model: Asset Vulnerability Enumeration (acts on Software)
Isolate: Application-based Process Isolation (acts on Subroutine)

D3FEND ontology version 1.6.0.

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Cite this page

Dragons Eye Ransomware Tracker, "CVE-2022-43769: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho BA Server Special Element Injection Vulnerability",
entity page, dataset version ref-a45086075dc9, updated 2026-11-02T23:39:54.475Z,
https://ransomware-tracker.com/cve/CVE-2022-43769 (accessed 2026-11-03).
Underlying source: CISA Catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, version 2026.10.30.
Underlying source: National Vulnerability Database (NIST), CVE API 2.0, record last modified 2026-06-17T05:07:17.553.
Underlying source: CVE List (CVE Program, The MITRE Corporation), record updated 2025-10-21T23:15:21.447Z.
Underlying source: MITRE D3FEND, ontology version 1.6.0.

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