Spring Boot Admins integrated notifier support allows arbitrary code execution
CVE-2022-46166

8.1HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Codecentric

Status
Spring-boot-admin
Vendor
CVE Published:
9 December 2022

Badges

๐Ÿ‘พ Exploit Exists๐ŸŸก Public PoC

What is CVE-2022-46166?

Spring boot admins is an open source administrative user interface for management of spring boot applications. All users who run Spring Boot Admin Server, having enabled Notifiers (e.g. Teams-Notifier) and write access to environment variables via UI are affected. Users are advised to upgrade to the most recent releases of Spring Boot Admin 2.6.10 and 2.7.8 to resolve this issue. Users unable to upgrade may disable any notifier or disable write access (POST request) on /env actuator endpoint.

Affected Version(s)

spring-boot-admin < 2.6.10

Exploit Proof of Concept (PoC)

PoC code is written by security researchers to demonstrate the vulnerability can be exploited. PoC code is also a key component for weaponization which could lead to ransomware.

CVE-2022-46166
Created by DickDock

References

https://github.com/codecentric/spring-boot-admin/security...
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https://github.com/codecentric/spring-boot-admin/commit/c...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.1
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • ๐ŸŸก

    Public PoC available

  • ๐Ÿ‘พ

    Exploit known to exist

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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