CVE-2022-22970 Denial of service in Spring Framework
Attackers can cause denial of service in Spring Framework applications handling file uploads via data binding to MultipartFile fields.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2022-22970?
CVE-2022-22970 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, published on 12 May 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-22970?
4 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.springframework:spring-beans. It affects 6 products.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
org.springframework:spring-beans Maven | All versions | 5.2.22.RELEASE |
org.springframework:spring-beans Maven | All versions | 5.2.22.RELEASE |
org.springframework:spring-beans Maven | From 5.3.0 | 5.3.20 |
org.springframework:spring-beans Maven | From 5.3.0 | 5.3.20 |
Products include Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager, Netapp Brocade San Navigator, Netapp Cloud Secure Agent, Netapp Oncommand Insight, Oracle Financial Services Crime and Compliance Management Studio, Vmware Spring Framework.
How do I fix CVE-2022-22970?
Upgrade org.springframework:spring-beans to a fixed version for your release line: 5.2.22.RELEASE or 5.3.20.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2022-22970 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-22970 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.
Other vulnerabilities in Netapp Active Iq Unified Manager
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-22970, GHSA-hh26-6xwr-ggv7, RHLW-2026-a5ec8923604c1851, ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2022-22970, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-22970.