CVE-2022-22965

9.8 CRITICAL CISA KEV - Actively Exploited
Published: April 01, 2022 Modified: October 30, 2025

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166713/Spring4Shell-Code-Execution.html
Source: security@vmware.com
Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-254054.pdf
Source: security@vmware.com
Patch Third Party Advisory
https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2022-0005
Source: security@vmware.com
Third Party Advisory
https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2022-22965
Source: security@vmware.com
Mitigation Vendor Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
Source: security@vmware.com
Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
Source: security@vmware.com
Patch Third Party Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/166713/Spring4Shell-Code-Execution.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-254054.pdf
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Third Party Advisory
https://psirt.global.sonicwall.com/vuln-detail/SNWLID-2022-0005
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2022-22965
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mitigation Vendor Advisory
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/970766
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
US Government Resource
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Third Party Advisory
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Patch Third Party Advisory
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2022-22965
Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
US Government Resource

18 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
9.8 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
94.4%
100th percentile
Exploitation Status
Actively Exploited
Remediation due: 2022-04-25

Weaknesses (CWE)

Affected Vendors

vmware cisco oracle siemens veritas