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Vulnerability · Published May 12, 2022 · Assigned by vmware

CVE-2022-22971

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity resource allocation without limits in Spring Framework. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.2% (higher than 88% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code. Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)3.2%top 11.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

In spring framework versions prior to 5.3.20+ , 5.2.22+ and old unsupported versions, application with a STOMP over WebSocket endpoint is vulnerable to a denial of service attack by an authenticated user.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine:v3.20jenkins2.361.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-22971
Alpine:v3.21jenkins2.361.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-22971
Alpine:v3.22jenkins2.361.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-22971
Alpine:v3.23jenkins2.361.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-22971
Alpine:v3.24jenkins2.361.2-r0ALPINE-CVE-2022-22971
Debian:12libspring-javano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2022-22971
Debian:13libspring-javano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2022-22971
Debian:14libspring-javano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2022-22971
Mavenorg.springframework:spring-messaging5.2.22.RELEASEGHSA-rqph-vqwm-22vc
Mavenorg.springframework:spring-messaging5.3.20GHSA-rqph-vqwm-22vc
Ubuntu:25.10libspring-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-22971
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlibspring-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-22971
Ubuntu:26.10libspring-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2022-22971

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a Spring Framework Spring Framework versions 5.3.x prior to 5.3.20, 5.2.x prior to 5.2.22 and all old and unsupported versions

Weakness: CWE-770

References