CVE-2022-22965 (Critical) detected in spring-beans-4.2.0.RELEASE.jar

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CVE-2022-22965 - Critical Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - spring-beans-4.2.0.RELEASE.jar

Spring Beans

Library home page: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework

Path to dependency file: /pom.xml

Path to vulnerable library: /home/wss-scanner/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-beans/4.2.0.RELEASE/spring-beans-4.2.0.RELEASE.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

• spring-web-4.2.0.RELEASE.jar (Root Library)
  • spring-aop-4.2.0.RELEASE.jar
    • ❌ spring-beans-4.2.0.RELEASE.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 2c2c9f752b1dec579a12ba0bcc3d8dab738d7cff

Found in base branch: vp-rem

Vulnerability Details

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.
Mend Note: Converted from WS-2022-0107, on 2022-11-07.

Publish Date: 2022-04-01

URL: CVE-2022-22965

CVSS 3 Score Details (10.0)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Changed
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: Low
  • Integrity Impact: High
  • Availability Impact: High

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://spring.io/blog/2022/03/31/spring-framework-rce-early-announcement

Release Date: 2022-04-01

Fix Resolution (org.springframework:spring-beans): 5.2.20.RELEASE

Direct dependency fix Resolution (org.springframework:spring-web): 5.2.21.RELEASE

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⛑️ Automatic Remediation will be attempted for this issue.