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Spring Cloud Gateway Code Injection Vulnerability

CRITICAL | MARCH 01, 2022 | CVE-2022-22947

Description

Applications using Spring Cloud Gateway are vulnerable to a code injection attack when the Gateway Actuator endpoint is enabled, exposed and unsecured. A remote attacker could make a maliciously crafted request that could allow arbitrary remote execution on the remote host.

Affected Spring Products and Versions

Spring Cloud Gateway:

  • 3.1.0 - 3.1.0
  • 3.0.6 and earlier

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.
Fix versionAvailability
3.1.1OSS
3.0.7OSS

If the Gateway actuator endpoint is not needed it should be disabled via management.endpoint.gateway.enabled: false. If the actuator is required it should be secured using Spring Security, see https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/actuator.html#actuator.endpoints.security.

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered and responsibly reported by Wyatt Dahlenburg.

References

History

  • 2022-03-01: Initial vulnerability report published.

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