CVE-2022-31691

high-risk
Published 2022-11-04

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.

Do I need to act?

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13.6% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 86% of all CVEs
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (5)

Affected Vendors

Vmware

References (2)

Vendor Advisory https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2022-31691
Vendor Advisory https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2022-31691
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high-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 12/34 · Low
Exposure 12/34 · Low