CVE-2022-22947 in VMware and Oracle Products
Published on March 3, 2022
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This VMware Spring Cloud Gateway Code Injection Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Spring Cloud Gateway applications are vulnerable to a code injection attack when the Gateway Actuator endpoint is enabled, exposed and unsecured.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by June 6, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2022-22947 can be exploited with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors in an automatable fashion. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.
Weakness Type
What is a Code Injection Vulnerability?
The software constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.
CVE-2022-22947 has been classified to as a Code Injection vulnerability or weakness.
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Exploit Probability
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