Vulnerability · Published Nov 4, 2022 · Assigned by vmware
CVE-2022-31691
Critical 9.8
In plain English
A critical-severity code injection in Spring by VMware. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.4% (higher than 89% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse version 4.16.0 and below as well as VSCode extensions such as Spring Boot Tools, Concourse CI Pipeline Editor, Bosh Editor and Cloudfoundry Manifest YML Support version 1.39.0 and below all use Snakeyaml library for YAML editing support. This library allows for some special syntax in the YAML that under certain circumstances allows for potentially harmful remote code execution by the attacker.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| n/a | Spring by VMware | Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse version 4.16.0 and below as well as VSCode extensions such as Spring Boot Tools, Concourse CI Pipeline Editor, Bosh Editor and Cloudfoundry Manifest YML Support version 1.39.0 and below all use Snakeyaml library for YAML editing support. |
Weakness: CWE-94 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H