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GSD-2022-23463

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:19

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Nepxion Discovery is a solution for Spring Cloud. Discover is vulnerable to SpEL Injection in discovery-commons. DiscoveryExpressionResolver’s eval method is evaluating expression with a StandardEvaluationContext, allowing the expression to reach and interact with Java classes such as java.lang.Runtime, leading to Remote Code Execution. There is no patch available for this issue at time of publication. There are no known workarounds.

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CVE-2022-23463

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CVE-2022-23463

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CVE-2022-23463 (GCVE-0-2022-23463)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-24 04:40 – Updated: 2025-04-22 17:20

Title

SpEL Injection in Nepxion Discovery

Summary

Severity

9.4 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-22 15:36 UTC

CWE

CWE-917 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an Expression Language Statement ('Expression Language Injection')

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7637 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
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Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Nepxion	Discover	Affected: 6.16.2 , ≤ 6.16.2 (custom)

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