JetBrain Ktor before 2.1.0 vulnerable to selection of wrong authentication provider

MEDIUM 6.5CVE-2022-38180 · GHSA-hccx-cg4v-hrjx · Published 12/08/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-38180 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability affecting io.ktor:ktor, ktor (jetbrains).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.76%, higher than 55.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 2.1.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
io.ktor:ktor Maven	`< 2.1.0`	`2.1.0`
ktor jetbrains	`< 2.1.0`	`2.1.0`

In JetBrains Ktor before 2.1.0 the wrong authentication provider could be selected in some cases

NVD description

In JetBrains Ktor before 2.1.0 the wrong authentication provider could be selected in some cases

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