Vulnerability · Published Sep 24, 2022 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2022-23463SpEL Injection in Nepxion Discovery

Critical 9.4

In plain English

A critical-severity expression language injection in Discover from Nepxion. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.3% (higher than 83% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.4Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)2.3%top 17.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Nepxion Discovery is a solution for Spring Cloud. Discover is vulnerable to SpEL Injection in discovery-commons. DiscoveryExpressionResolver’s eval method is evaluating expression with a StandardEvaluationContext, allowing the expression to reach and interact with Java classes such as java.lang.Runtime, leading to Remote Code Execution. There is no patch available for this issue at time of publication. There are no known workarounds.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Mavencom.nepxion:discoveryno fix listedGHSA-q979-9m39-23mq

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Nepxion Discover 6.16.2 – through 6.16.2

Weakness: CWE-917 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

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