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Nepxion Discovery vulnerable to SpEL Injection leading to Remote Code Execution

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 25, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

maven com.nepxion:discovery (Maven)

Affected versions

<= 6.16.2

Patched versions

None

Description

Nepxion Discovery is a solution for Spring Cloud. Discovery 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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 24, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 25, 2022
Reviewed Sep 28, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L

EPSS score

0.400%
(74th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-23463

GHSA ID

GHSA-q979-9m39-23mq

Source code

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