CVE-2022-22965
CRITICAL9.8⚠ KEVEPSS 94.4%Remote Code Execution in Spring Framework
Published: 3/31/2022Modified: 4/28/2026Added to CISA KEV: 4/4/2022
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.
Affected packages (6)
- Debian/libspring-javafrom 0
- Maven/org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-webfrom 0, < 2.5.12
- Maven/org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-webfluxfrom 0, < 2.5.12
- Maven/org.springframework:spring-beansfrom 0, < 5.2.20.RELEASE
- Maven/org.springframework:spring-webfluxfrom 0, < 5.2.20.RELEASE
- Maven/org.springframework:spring-webmvcfrom 0, < 5.2.20.RELEASE
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H |
References (19)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22965
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-22965
- PATCHhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework
- WEBhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166713/Spring4Shell-Code-Execution.html
- WEBhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167011/Spring4Shell-Spring-Framework-Class-Property-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- WEBhttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-254054.pdf
- WEBhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/releases/tag/v2.5.12
- WEBhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/releases/tag/v2.6.6
- WEBhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/002546b3e4b8d791ea6acccb81eb3168f51abb15
- WEBhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/releases/tag/v5.2.20.RELEASE
- WEBhttps://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/releases/tag/v5.3.18
- WEBhttps://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2022-0005
- WEBhttps://spring.io/blog/2022/03/31/spring-framework-rce-early-announcement
- WEBhttps://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2022-22965
- WEBhttps://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-java-spring-rce-Zx9GUc67
- WEBhttps://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-22965
- WEBhttps://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/970766
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html