Description
CVE-2022-22965: Spring Core Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Exploited In the Wild (SpringShell)
Severity: Critical
Base CVSS Score: 10.0
The CVE-2022-22965 vulnerability allows an attacker unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE), which Unit 42 has observed being exploited in the wild. The exploitation of this vulnerability could result in a web shell being installed onto the compromised server that allows further command execution.
Impact
As reported in the Spring Framework RCE - Early Announcement article, the vulnerability can only be exploited for when JDK versions 9 or higher. Data Insight (all versions) internally uses Spring Framework in conjunction with JDK versions lower than Version 9, moreover it doesn’t use Spring MVC.
All versions of Data Insight are unaffected by this vulnerability and hence no mitigation is required.
Questions
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