CVE-2022-22968

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-04-14 · updated 2026-10-08
Weakness: CWE-178

Description

In Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 - 5.3.18, 5.2.0 - 5.2.20, and older unsupported versions, the patterns for disallowedFields on a DataBinder are case sensitive which means a field is not effectively protected unless it is listed with both upper and lower case for the first character of the field, including upper and lower case for the first character of all nested fields within the property path.

Affected products

Active IQ Unified Manager for VMware vSphere, Linux, and Microsoft Windows: all versions
NetApp Cloud Secure Agent: all versions
NetApp Metrocluster Tiebreaker: all versions
NetApp Snap Creator Framework: all versions
SnapManager for Oracle: all versions
Oracle Corporation MySQL Enterprise Monitor: through 8.0.29
Spring Framework: before 5.2.0; from 5.2.0 through 5.2.20; from 5.3.0 through 5.3.18 — fixed in 5.2.0
Spring Framework: from Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 through 5.3.18, 5.2.0 - 5.2.20, and older unsupported versions

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Spring Framework 5.2.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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