CVE-2022-31691

Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse version 4.16.0 and below as well as VSCode extensions such as Spring Boot Tools, Concourse CI Pipeline Editor, Bosh Editor and Cloudfoundry Manifest YML Support version 1.39.0 and below all use Snakeyaml library for YAML editing support. This library allows for some special syntax in the YAML that under certain circumstances allows for potentially harmful remote code execution by the attacker.

Affected

Spring by VMware

CVSS v3.1 NVD

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

EPSS

2.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 86th percentile

Published

2022-11-04

Updated

2025-05-02

Proof-of-concept exploits (2)

• SpindleSec/CVE-2022-316911★ · 2022-11-17
• blipzip/CVE-2022-316911★ · 2022-11-17

Security advisories

• https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2022-31691

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2022-31692