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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2021-22060 json

Log entry injection in Spring Framework

published 2022-01-07 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-6gf2-pvqw-37ph , EUVD-2022-0479

cvss
4.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 60%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 - 5.3.13, 5.2.0 - 5.2.18, and older unsupported versions, it is possible for a user to provide malicious input to cause the insertion of additional log entries. This is a follow-up to CVE-2021-22096 that protects against additional types of input and in more places of the Spring Framework codebase.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework:spring-core 5.2.19, 5.3.14

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-22060 updated cvss 4.3

springframework: Additional Log Injection in Spring Framework (follow-up to CVE-2021-22096)

  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 springframework springframework
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.11
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:5532
  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7 springframework springframework Red Hat Process Automation 7 springframework springframework Red Hat Virtualization 4 rhvm-dependencies
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework:spring-core
>=5.3.0, <5.3.14
>=5.2.0, <5.2.19
5.3.14
5.2.19

Affected products

  • n/a Spring Framework

Classification

Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.