CVE-2021-22097

Medium

Description

In Spring AMQP versions 2.2.0 - 2.2.18 and 2.3.0 - 2.3.10, the Spring AMQP Message object, in its toString() method, will deserialize a body for a message with content type application/x-java-serialized-object. It is possible to construct a malicious java.util.Dictionary object that can cause 100% CPU usage in the application if the toString() method is called.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductVmware Spring Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
PublishedOct 28, 2021
First seenOct 28, 2021

How to fix

Update
  • org.springframework.amqp:spring-amqp2.2.19, 2.3.11 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
vmware spring_advanced_message_queuing_protocol2.2.0 ≤ v ≤ 2.2.18, 2.3.0 ≤ v ≤ 2.3.10—
org.springframework.amqp:spring-amqpMaven2.2.0 ≤ v < 2.2.19, 2.3.0 ≤ v < 2.3.112.2.19, 2.3.11

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