CVE-2022-23463 CRITICAL

CVE-2022-23463: SpEL Injection in Nepxion Discovery

Vendor Nepxion
Product Discover
Weakness CWE-917
Published September 24, 2022
Last update April 22, 2025
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CVSS base score

9.4/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 24, 2022 CVE published
April 22, 2025 Record updated

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04Related CVE

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