CVE-2022-45347: Apache Shardingsphere

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Apache ShardingSphere-Proxy prior to 5.3.0 when using MySQL as database backend didn't cleanup the database session completely after client authentication failed, which allowed an attacker to execute normal commands by constructing a special MySQL client. This vulnerability has been fixed in Apache ShardingSphere 5.3.0.

Affected products

• Apache Shardingsphere: before 5.3.0 (fixed in 5.3.0)

Published 2022-12-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.