Spring4Shell Detection (CVE-2022-22965)
spring4shell-detection is a critical severity check in the
web category, written in java.
Its source is templates/web/injection/Spring4ShellDetection.java in
cert-x-gen-templates.
What it checks
Section titled “What it checks”Detects CVE-2022-22965 Spring Framework RCE via class binding gadget. Probes for vulnerable DataBinder behavior using classLoader property chain. Non-intrusive detection only - no webshell deployment.
Header
Section titled “Header”| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Id | spring4shell-detection |
| Severity | critical |
| Language | java |
| Category | web |
| Author | CERT-X-GEN Security Team |
| Template version | not recorded |
| Confidence | 85 |
| CVSS | not recorded |
| Weakness | CWE-94 |
| Tags | spring, java, rce, cve-2022-22965, spring4shell, class-binding |
| Target kind | not recorded |
| Oracle | not recorded |
References
Section titled “References”Declared in the header. cxg parses @references and then discards it, and
nothing at scan time reads it, so this is the only place the links a
template cites are surfaced.
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22965
- https://spring.io/security/cve-2022-22965
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/7f7fb58dd0dae86d22268a4b59ac7c72a6c22529
Run it
Section titled “Run it”To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:
cxg template info spring4shell-detectionThe id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See
cxg template for the rest of
the subcommand, Scan a target for running
a scan, and
A match is not a finding for how
to read what comes back.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Template catalog is the whole corpus.
- web is the rest of this category.
- Templates by weakness class groups checks by the defect they look for.
- Contribute a template is the route from a check you needed and could not find to a merged one.