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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.2

CVE-2021-23258 json

Spring SPEL Expression Language Injection

published 2021-12-02 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-10357

cvss
4.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Authenticated users with Administrator or Developer roles may execute OS commands by SPEL Expression in Spring beans. SPEL Expression does not have security restrictions, which will cause attackers to execute arbitrary commands remotely (RCE).

Patch / fix

  • Crafter Software Crafter CMS 3.1.12

Exploit prediction

0.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Crafter Software Crafter CMS

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-913 Improper Control of Dynamically-Managed Code Resources

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.