Impact of CVE-2022-22965 Spring Framework Vulnerability on Veritas Desktop and Laptop Option (DLO)

Article: 100052799
Last Published: 2022-04-04
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Product(s): Desktop Laptop Option

Description

A new vulnerability has been discovered in the Spring Framework. Details and mitigation steps are part of the announcement. As part of this article, we are tracking the following vulnerabilities and their impact to the Veritas Desktop and Laptop Option (DLO) product. (CVE-2022-22965). 

CVE-2022-22965: Spring Framework RCE via Data Binding on JDK 9+

  • Severity: Critical
  • 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 Versions

Veritas Desktop and Laptop Option (DLO) components do not use the Spring Framework component and therefore are not affected by these Vulnerabilities.  No further mitigation is required.

 

Questions

For questions or problems regarding these vulnerabilities please contact Veritas Technical Support (https://www.veritas.com/support)

 

Disclaimer

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