CVE-2022-22947

Product Serial: P-2022-12-06a

TLP: CLEAR

In this report, ZeroFox Intelligence discusses the risk that CVE-2022-22947 poses while covering the technical details and providing a Sigma rule for detection.

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Executive Summary

CVE-2022-22947 is an RCE vulnerability that allows threat actors to gain an initial foothold within a corporate network. When successfully exploited, this vulnerability provides the running malware with the same permissions as the user running the Spring Cloud Gateway application. This vulnerability allows a threat actor the ability to easily run arbitrary shell commands on a front-facing application. Accordingly, ZeroFox rates its impact as high because a successful exploitation attempt can lead to severe economic and reputational damage for an organization.

In Spring Cloud Gateway versions prior to 3.1.1+ and 3.0.7+, applications are vulnerable to a code injection attack when the Gateway Actuator endpoint is enabled, exposed, and unsecured. A remote attacker could craft a malicious request that could allow arbitrary remote execution on the remote host.