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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2022-46166 json

Spring Boot Admins integrated notifier support allows arbitrary code execution

published 2022-12-09 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-w3x5-427h-wfq6 , EUVD-2022-7754

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Spring boot admins is an open source administrative user interface for management of spring boot applications. All users who run Spring Boot Admin Server, having enabled Notifiers (e.g. Teams-Notifier) and write access to environment variables via UI are affected. Users are advised to upgrade to the most recent releases of Spring Boot Admin 2.6.10 and 2.7.8 to resolve this issue. Users unable to upgrade may disable any notifier or disable write access (POST request) on `/env` actuator endpoint.

Patch / fix

  • maven de.codecentric:spring-boot-admin 2.6.10, 2.7.8, 3.0.0-M6
  • codecentric spring_boot_admin 2.6.10, 2.7.8

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 8.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven de.codecentric:spring-boot-admin
<2.6.10
>=2.7.0, <2.7.8
>=3.0.0-M1, <3.0.0-M6
2.6.10
2.7.8
3.0.0-M6

Affected products

  • codecentric spring-boot-admin

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

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.