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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2022-22950 json

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Spring Framework

published 2022-04-01 4 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also GHSA-558x-2xjg-6232 , EUVD-2022-1628

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
36.9%
EPSS 36.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

n Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 - 5.3.16 and older unsupported versions, it is possible for a user to provide a specially crafted SpEL expression that may cause a denial of service condition.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework:spring-expression 5.2.20.RELEASE, 5.3.17
  • vmware spring_framework 5.2.20, 5.3.17
  • ovirt-web-ui rhev manager 4.4 1.9.0-1.el8ev
  • ovirt-dependencies rhev manager 4.4 4.5.2-1.el8ev
  • apache-commons-compress rhev manager 4.4 1.21-1.2.el8ev
  • apache-commons-compress-javadoc rhev manager 4.4 1.21-1.2.el8ev

red hat advisories RHSA-2022:5555

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-2022-22950 updated cvss 7.5

spring-expression: Denial of service via specially crafted SpEL expression

  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift spring-expression Red Hat Data Grid 8 spring-expression Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 spring-expression Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1 spring-expression
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Integration Data Virtualisation Operator spring-expression Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 spring-expression Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 spring-expression Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 spring-expression Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 spring-expression Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 spring-expression
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat support for Spring Boot spring-expression
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.11
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:5532
  • Red Hat RHEL-8-RHEV-S-4.4 - Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4 ovirt-dependencies 4.5.2-1.el8ev
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:5555
  • Red Hat RHPAM 7.13.0 async
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:5903
  • Red Hat Text-Only RHOAR
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:8761
  • Red Hat A-MQ Clients 2 spring-expression Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 spring-expression Red Hat build of Quarkus spring-expression Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 spring-expression Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack spring-expression Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes spring-expression
    +3 more products
    Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 spring-expression Red Hat RHEL-8-RHEV-S-4.4 - Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4 rhvm 4.5.1.2-0.11.el8ev, ovirt-web-ui 1.9.0-1.el8ev, ovirt-engine-dwh 4.5.3-1.el8ev, ovirt-engine 4.5.1.2-0.11.el8ev, postgresql-jdbc 42.2.14-1.el8ev, rhvm-branding-rhv 4.5.0-1.el8ev, +26 more Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka spring-expression
    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

cisa ICSA-22-286-05 updated cvss 3.1

Hitachi Energy Lumada Asset Performance Management Prognostic Model Executor Service

  • Hitachi Energy Lumada Asset Performance Manager (APM) <= 6.3.220323.0, >= 6.0.0.0, <= 6.0.0.4, 6.1.0.0, 6.1.0.1, >= 6.2.0.0, <= 6.2.0.2
    affected: mitigation “Hitachi Energy recommends applying the most recent patch version of Lumada Asset Performance Management (APM) or upgrading to a newer, unaffected major version:” hitachienergy.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

36.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework:spring-expression
>=5.3.0, <5.3.17
<5.2.20.RELEASE
5.3.17
5.2.20.RELEASE

Affected products

  • n/a Spring Framework

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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