CVE-2022-22965

critical

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.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-java-spring-rce-Zx9GUc67

https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2022-0005

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-254054.pdf

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167011/Spring4Shell-Spring-Framework-Class-Property-Remote-Code-Execution.html

https://www.edgescan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/2023-Vulnerability-Statistics-Report.pdf

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa24-207a

https://blog.aquasec.com/threat-alert-apache-applications-targeted-by-stealthy-attacker

https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/tenable-2022-threat-landscape-report

https://www.tenable.com/blog/oracle-july-2022-critical-patch-update-addresses-188-cves

https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/970766

https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2022-22965

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166713/Spring4Shell-Code-Execution.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-04-01

Updated: 2025-04-10

Named Vulnerability: SpringShellNamed Vulnerability: Spring4ShellKnown Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.9446