CVE-2022-22946

Spring Cloud Gateway vulnerability

CVSS

5.5

EPSS

4.8%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

In spring cloud gateway versions prior to 3.1.1+ , applications that are configured to enable HTTP2 and no key store or trusted certificates are set will be configured to use an insecure TrustManager. This makes the gateway able to connect to remote services with invalid or custom certificates.

Affected vendor

Vmware

Affected product

Spring Cloud Gateway

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation

Published

2022-03-04

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable with local access, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 4.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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