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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2022-22970 json

Denial of service in Spring Framework

published 2022-05-12 4 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also GHSA-hh26-6xwr-ggv7 , EUVD-2022-4149

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In spring framework versions prior to 5.3.20+ , 5.2.22+ and old unsupported versions, applications that handle file uploads are vulnerable to DoS attack if they rely on data binding to set a MultipartFile or javax.servlet.Part to a field in a model object.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework:spring-beans 5.2.22.RELEASE, 5.3.20
  • jenkins Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +5 more 2.361.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2022-22970

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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-2022-22970 updated cvss 5.3

springframework: DoS via data binding to multipartFile or servlet part

  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7 springframework springframework
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Integration Data Virtualisation Operator springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 springframework springframework
    +2 more products
    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 Process Automation 7 springframework springframework
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.10.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3185
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.11.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1661
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.11
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:5532
  • Red Hat A-MQ Clients 2 springframework springframework Red Hat build of Quarkus springframework springframework Red Hat Data Grid 8 springframework springframework Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 springframework springframework Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 springframework springframework
    +4 more products
    Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack springframework springframework Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 springframework springframework Red Hat support for Spring Boot springframework springframework Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka springframework springframework
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

1.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework:spring-beans
<5.2.22.RELEASE
>=5.3.0, <5.3.20
5.2.22.RELEASE
5.3.20

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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