CVE-2022-22965

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-04-04), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2022-1283 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-36p3-wjmg-h94x (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 99.6%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Metasploit · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux application running on JDK 9+ may be vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) via data binding. The specific exploit requires the application to run on Tomcat as a WAR deployment. If the application is deployed as a Spring Boot executable jar, i.e. the default, it is not vulnerable to the exploit. However, the nature of the vulnerability is more general, and there may be other ways to exploit it.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
99
EG Risk 99/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.
EPSS PROB
99.6%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
99.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Act at medium mission impactAttend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Attend at low mission impact; Act at medium or high.

A fix is available. Apply it sooner than your standard update timelines at low mission impact and as soon as possible at medium or high.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 3 days & forensic triage if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22965

Published

April 1, 2022

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Oct 26, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available.

Patch Availability(9)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntulibspring-web-servlet-java (4.3.22-4ubuntu0.1~esm1) @ focal2026-11-01ubuntu
redhatspring-webmvc2022-04-27redhat
redhatpatch2022-04-27redhat
redhatspring-beans2022-04-12redhat
redhatpatch2022-04-11redhat
mavenorg.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web @ 2.5.12 (fixes < 2.5.12)—ghsa
mavenorg.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web @ 2.6.6 (fixes >= 2.6.0, < 2.6.6)—ghsa
mavenorg.springframework:spring-beans @ 5.3.18 (fixes >= 5.3.0, < 5.3.18)—ghsa
mavenorg.springframework:spring-beans @ 5.2.20.RELEASE (fixes < 5.2.20.RELEASE)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(9 across 5 ecosystems)
Maven(5)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web2.6.0 ... 2.6.5 (6 versions)
  • every version up to 2.5.12: fixed in 2.5.12
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.6.6: fixed in 2.6.6
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org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-webflux2.6.0 ... 2.6.5 (6 versions)
  • every version up to 2.5.12: fixed in 2.5.12
  • 2.6.0 up to 2.6.6: fixed in 2.6.6
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org.springframework:spring-beans5.3.0 ... 5.3.9 (18 versions)
  • every version up to 5.2.20.RELEASE: fixed in 5.2.20.RELEASE
  • 5.3.0 up to 5.3.18: fixed in 5.3.18
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org.springframework:spring-webflux5.3.0 ... 5.3.9 (18 versions)
  • every version up to 5.2.20.RELEASE: fixed in 5.2.20.RELEASE
  • 5.3.0 up to 5.3.18: fixed in 5.3.18
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org.springframework:spring-webmvc5.3.0 ... 5.3.9 (18 versions)
  • every version up to 5.2.20.RELEASE: fixed in 5.2.20.RELEASE
  • 5.3.0 up to 5.3.18: fixed in 5.3.18
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Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libspring-java4.3.30-1, 4.3.30-2, 4.3.30-3, 4.3.30-4
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libspring-java4.3.30-2, 4.3.30-3, 4.3.30-4
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libspring-java4.3.30-3, 4.3.30-4
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
libspring-java4.3.30-3, 4.3.30-4
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Weakness Classification(2)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

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Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 16× in last 7d / 110× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 99 of 1,008 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 1 repeat row among the latest 100 is merged into the row it repeats. The 909 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 13:56 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-11-01 13:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-36p3-wjmg-h94x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-11-01 08:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-36p3-wjmg-h94x · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-01 08:28 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-31 15:43 UTCVendor advisory
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  8. 2026-10-30 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99.6% · 99th percentile
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  10. 2026-10-29 19:18 UTCVendor advisory
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  19. 2026-10-25 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99.6% · 99th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-22 09:23 UTCEG score recompute
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  15. 2026-10-16 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 99.6% · 99th percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(12 references, 10 shown)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 9 GitHub PoCs), as are 1 Nuclei detection template, 1 GitHub checker repository. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. A GitHub repository named or described as a checker or scanner checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Metasploitexploit/multi/http/spring_framework_rce_spring4shell✓ verified
    Published May 10, 2022

    Spring Framework data-binding RCE via classLoader manipulation.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCzangcc/CVE-2022-22965-rexbb
    Published Dec 28, 2022

    CVE-2022-22965\Spring-Core-RCE核弹级别漏洞的rce图形化GUI一键利用工具,基于JavaFx开发,图形化操作更简单,提高效率。

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub checkertpt11fb/SpringVulScan
    Published Jun 19, 2022

    burpsuite 的Spring漏洞扫描插件。SpringVulScan:支持检测:路由泄露|CVE-2022-22965|CVE-2022-22963|CVE-2022-22947|CVE-2016-4977

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoC4nth0ny1130/spring4shell_behinder
    Published Apr 7, 2022

    CVE-2022-22965写入冰蝎webshell脚本

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCalt3kx/CVE-2022-22965
    Published Apr 7, 2022

    Spring Framework RCE (CVE-2022-22965) Nmap (NSE) Checker (Non-Intrusive)

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCSecNN/SpringFramework_CVE-2022-22965_RCE
    Published Apr 1, 2022

    SpringFramework 远程代码执行漏洞CVE-2022-22965

    Open source ↗
  • Nucleihttp/cves/2022/CVE-2022-22965.yaml
    Published Apr 1, 2022

    Spring - Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCFourCoreLabs/spring4shell-exploit-poc
    Published Mar 31, 2022

    Exploit a vulnerable Spring application with the Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965) Vulnerability.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCreznok/Spring4Shell-POC
    Published Mar 31, 2022

    Dockerized Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965) PoC application and exploit

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCBobTheShoplifter/Spring4Shell-POC
    Published Mar 30, 2022

    Spring4Shell Proof Of Concept/And vulnerable application CVE-2022-22965

    Open source ↗

Past incidents using this CVE

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This CVE was central to one or more publicly-documented breaches. Each card links to authoritative reporting at the time of the incident.

  • Spring4Shell (Spring Framework)Mar 2022

    Spring Framework data-binding flaw allowed RCE on JDK 9+ web apps via classloader manipulation. Initially conflated with a Spring Cloud Function CVE, causing widespread confusion.

    Source: BleepingComputer

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2022-22965?
CVE-2022-22965 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on April 1, 2022. A Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux application running on JDK 9+ may be vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) via data binding. The specific exploit requires the application to run on Tomcat as a WAR deployment. If the application is deployed as a Spring Boot executable jar, i.e. the default, it is…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2022-22965 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2022-22965 was published on April 1, 2022. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2022-22965 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2022-22965 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on April 4, 2022, affecting VMware Spring Framework. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2022-22965?
CVE-2022-22965 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2022-22965?
CVE-2022-22965 affects VMware Spring Framework. The affected packages EchelonGraph has on record, with version ranges, are listed in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2022-22965?
A fix for CVE-2022-22965 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2022-22965 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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