Critical severity · published Dec 9, 2022
CVE-2022-46166
Spring boot admins is an open source administrative user interface for management of spring boot applications
9.8
CVSS
1.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Spring boot admins is an open source administrative user interface for management of spring boot applications. All users who run Spring Boot Admin Server, having enabled Notifiers (e.g. Teams-Notifier) and write access to environment variables via UI are affected. Users are advised to upgrade to the most recent releases of Spring Boot Admin 2.6.10 and 2.7.8 to resolve this issue. Users unable to upgrade may disable any notifier or disable write access (POST request) on `/env` actuator endpoint.
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)1.6% · higher than 75% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SB
Spring Boot Admin · Codecentric
before 2.6.10; 2.7.0 before 2.7.8; 3.0.0; 3.0.0; 3.0.0; 3.0.0; +1 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-46166
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-46166
Patch
https://github.com/codecentric/spring-boot-admin/commit/c14c3ec12533f71f84de9ce3ce5ceb7991975f75
Mitigation
https://github.com/codecentric/spring-boot-admin/security/advisories/GHSA-w3x5-427h-wfq6
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