CVE-2022-22965 (GCVE-0-2022-22965)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-04-01 22:17
Modified
2025-10-21 23:15
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Summary
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
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Spring Framework Version: 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
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Data from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

Date added: 2022-04-04

Due date: 2022-04-25

Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Used in ransomware: Unknown

Notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22965

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