CVE-2022-22965
A Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux application running on JDK 9+ may be vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) via data binding. The…
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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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Spring Framework JDK 9+ Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
- Added
- 4 Apr 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 25 Apr 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 99.6% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
Spring Framework
- affected Spring Framework versions 5.3.X prior to 5.3.18+, 5.2.x prior to 5.2.20+ and all old and unsupported versions
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-webGHSA-36p3-wjmg-h94x (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-webfluxGHSA-36p3-wjmg-h94x (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.springframework:spring-beansGHSA-36p3-wjmg-h94x (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.springframework:spring-webfluxGHSA-36p3-wjmg-h94x (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.springframework:spring-webmvcGHSA-36p3-wjmg-h94x (opens in a new tab)
References (10)
- https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2022-22965 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20220401 Vulnerability in Spring Framework Affecting Cisco Products: March 2022 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CISCOx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2022-0005 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166713/Spring4Shell-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-254054.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167011/Spring4Shell-Spring-Framework-Class-Property-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/970766 (opens in a new tab)
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-22965 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-36p3-wjmg-h94x (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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