CVE-2022-23463

SpEL Injection in Nepxion Discovery

State: Published
Severity: 9.4 Critical
Published: Sep 24, 2022
Updated: Apr 22, 2025
Reserved: Jan 19, 2022

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.4 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

Product	Versions
DiscoverNepxion	6.16.2 through 6.16.2Affected

References

https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2022-033_GHSL-2022-034_Discovery/

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