CVE-2022-22965

Description

A Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux application running on JDK 9+ may be vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) via data binding. The specific exploit requires the application to run on Tomcat as a WAR deployment. If the application is deployed as a Spring Boot executable jar, i.e. the default, it is not vulnerable to the exploit. However, the nature of the vulnerability is more general, and there may be other ways to exploit it.

How to fix CVE-2022-22965

To remediate CVE-2022-22965, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.

• —no fix listed
• —upgrade to 2.5.12 or later
• —upgrade to 2.5.12 or later
• —upgrade to 5.2.20.RELEASE or later
• —upgrade to 5.2.20.RELEASE or later
• —upgrade to 5.2.20.RELEASE or later

Is CVE-2022-22965 being exploited?

Yes — CVE-2022-22965 is on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Patch immediately.

Affected packages (6)

• from 0
• from 0, < 2.5.12
• from 0, < 2.5.12
• from 0, < 5.2.20.RELEASE
• from 0, < 5.2.20.RELEASE
• from 0, < 5.2.20.RELEASE

CVSS scores

References (19)

• ADVISORYnvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22965
• ADVISORYsecurity-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-22965
• PATCHgithub.com/spring-projects/spring-framework
• WEBpacketstormsecurity.com/files/166713/Spring4Shell-Code-Execution.html