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CVE-2022-23463: SpEL Injection in Nepxion Discovery

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-09-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-917

Description

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.

Affected products

• Nepxion Discover: through 6.16.2

References

• https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2022-033_GHSL-2022-034_Discovery/
• https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2022-033_GHSL-2022-034_Discovery/

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