CVE-2022-24112: Apache APISIX Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2022-08-25. EPSS: 96.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An attacker can abuse the batch-requests plugin to send requests to bypass the IP restriction of Admin API. A default configuration of Apache APISIX (with default API key) is vulnerable to remote code execution. When the admin key was changed or the port of Admin API was changed to a port different from the data panel, the impact is lower. But there is still a risk to bypass the IP restriction of Apache APISIX's data panel. There is a check in the batch-requests plugin which overrides the client IP with its real remote IP. But due to a bug in the code, this check can be bypassed.

Affected products

• Apache APISIX: before 2.10.4 (fixed in 2.10.4); from 2.11.0, before 2.12.1 (fixed in 2.12.1)

Published 2022-02-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.