# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-36065"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2022-09-06T21:05:10.000Z"
updatedAt: "2025-04-23T17:14:18.040Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:45.230Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-36065"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-36065.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-36065"
title: "GrowthBook account creation and file upload vulnerability in self-hosted configurations"
summary: "GrowthBook is an open-source platform for feature flagging and A/B testing. With some self-hosted configurations in versions prior to 2022-08-29, attackers can register new accounts and upload files to arbitrary directories within the container. If the attacker uploads a Python script to the right location, they can execute arbitrary code within the container. To be affected, ALL of the following must be true: Self-hosted deployment (GrowthBook Cloud is unaffected); using local file uploads (as opposed to S3 or Google Cloud Storage); NODE_ENV set to a non-production value and JWT_SECRET set to an easily guessable string like `dev`. This issue is patched in commit 1a5edff8786d141161bf880c2fd9ccbe2850a264 (2022-08-29). As a workaround, set `JWT_SECRET` environment variable to a long random string. This will stop arbitrary file uploads, but the only way to stop attackers from registering accounts is by updating to the latest build."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003c 2022-08-29","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"growthbook","product":"growthbook"}]

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