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Spring4Shell Security Vulnerability

(CVE-2022-22965) Press Release


On March 30, 2022, a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability was found in the Spring Framework (Spring Core and the other in Spring Cloud Functions). More specifically, it is part of the spring-beans package, a transitive dependency in both spring-webmvc and spring-webflux

We want to reassure all our customers that the OvalEdge product is not impacted by this vulnerability. 

Anyone using Spring on Java 9 or newer, especially those using TomCat are impacted by this vulnerability. Java 8 does not appear to be vulnerable and OvalEdge uses Java 8 for the development of it's product.

For more information:

https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/spring-rce-vulnerabilities/

Anyone using Spring on Java 9 or newer, especially those using TomCat. Java 8 does not appear to be vulnerable.

https://snyk.io/blog/spring4shell-zero-day-rce-spring-framework-explained/

If you cannot update to a newer version of Spring, it might be feasible for you to downgrade your Java version to Java 8.

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