Critical severity · published Nov 4, 2022
CVE-2022-31691
Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse version 4.16.0 and below as well as VSCode extensions such as Spring Boot Tools, Concourse CI Pipeline Editor, Bosh Editor and Cloudfoundry Manifest YML…
9.8
CVSS
2.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse version 4.16.0 and below as well as VSCode extensions such as Spring Boot Tools, Concourse CI Pipeline Editor, Bosh Editor and Cloudfoundry Manifest YML Support version 1.39.0 and below all use Snakeyaml library for YAML editing support. This library allows for some special syntax in the YAML that under certain circumstances allows for potentially harmful remote code execution by the attacker.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.7% · higher than 86% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SB
Spring by VMware ·
Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse version 4.16.0 and below as well as VSCode extensions such as Spring Boot Tools, Concourse CI Pipeline Editor, Bosh Editor and Cloudfoundry Manifest YML Support version 1.39.0 and below all use Snakeyaml library for YAML editing support. · source: vendor
BE
Bosh Editor · Vmware
1.0.0 before 1.40.0 · source: NVD
CM
Cloudfoundry Manifest Yml Support · Vmware
1.0.0 before 1.40.0 · source: NVD
CC
Concourse CI Pipeline Editor · Vmware
1.0.0 before 1.40.0 · source: NVD
SB
Spring Boot Tools · Vmware
1.0.0 before 1.40.0 · source: NVD
ST
Spring Tools · Vmware
4.0.0 before 4.16.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31691
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-31691
Vendor Advisory
https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2022-31691
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