GHSA-q979-9m39-23mq

Nepxion Discovery vulnerable to SpEL Injection leading to Remote Code Execution

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2022-23463

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
Maven	com.nepxion:discovery	<= 6.16.2	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Nepxion Discovery is a solution for Spring Cloud. Discovery is vulnerable to SpEL Injection in discovery-commons. DiscoveryExpressionResolver’s eval method is evaluating expression with a StandardEvaluationContext, allowing the expression to reach and interact with Java classes such as java.lang.Runtime, leading to Remote Code Execution. There is no patch available for this issue at time of publication. There are no known workarounds.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23463 advisory
https://github.com/Nepxion/Discovery package
https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2022-033_GHSL-2022-034_Discovery advisory