CVE-2022-22965criticalunder attackCWE-94

CVE-2022-22965: critical vulnerability in Spring Framework

Published 01 Apr 2022 · Updated 21 Oct 2025

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100Vexday Risk Score

Patch now. It under exploitation confirmed by CISA and has a working public exploit.

ssvc Actcvss 9.8epss 100%

from disclosure to weaponsame day

Published on NVDApr 1

1st PoCMar 26

metasploitMar 31

CISA KEV+3d

What the vendors declare (VEX)

Official vendor statements in CSAF/VEX format: whether their product is affected, already fixed, or ruled out — and why. These are the vendor's assertions, not Vexday's judgment.

Red HatVEX document ↗

Affected

4 products

Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1 · Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 · Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 · Red Hat Virtualization 4

workaround: For those who are not able to upgrade affected Spring classes to the fixed versions, there is a workaround customers can implement for their applications, via setting disallowed fields on the data binder…

Fixed

7 products

CEQ 2.2.1-1 (CVE-2022-22965) · RHDM 7.12.1 async · RHINT Camel-K 1.6.5 · RHPAM 7.12.1 async · Red Hat AMQ 7.8.6 · and others 2

fix ↗

Action required by CISAfederal deadline: 2022-04-25

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

In short

A vulnerability in Spring MVC/WebFlux applications allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on the server through data binding on Java 9+. This happens when the app runs on Tomcat as a WAR file, making it a critical threat to web applications.

Technical detail

CVE-2022-22965 exploits unsafe data binding in Spring Framework on JDK 9+ environments, allowing remote code execution via malicious input to Spring MVC/WebFlux endpoints. Attack requires application deployment as WAR on Tomcat; Spring Boot JAR deployments are not affected. Successful exploitation grants unauthenticated attackers full remote code execution capability.

Summary generated and translated by AI from the official description.

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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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

n/a · Spring Framework

public PoCs found — 184

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References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166713/Spring4Shell-Code-Execution.html http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/167011/Spring4Shell-Spring-Framework-Class-Property-Remote-Code-Execution.html https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-254054.pdf https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2022-0005 https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2022-22965 https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-java-spring-rce-Zx9GUc67 https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-22965 https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/970766 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html