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Spring Framework RCE, CVE-2022-22965

Wadeck Follonier
Wadeck Follonier
Damien DUPORTAL
Damien DUPORTAL
Mark Waite
Mark Waite
March 31, 2022

A remote code execution vulnerability has been identified in the Spring Framework.

This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2022-22965.

Spring officially reacted early in an early announcement.

SpringShell in Jenkins Core and Plugins

The Jenkins security team has confirmed that the Spring vulnerability is not affecting Jenkins Core. There is no impact because we are using Stapler as a servlet, and neither Spring MVC nor Spring WebFlux.

An analysis was done on the plugins to determine whether some were using Spring in a dangerous way. No impact was found.

The dangerous library is included as a dependency of spring-security-web, which is not yet updated to include the fixed version.

The presence of Spring Framework is not enough to make the application vulnerable.

SpringShell in the Jenkins Infrastructure

The Jenkins infrastructure and security teams have confirmed that the Spring vulnerability is not affecting any part of the Jenkins infrastructure.

The following applications are Java applications that mention Spring as a dependency:

We may decide to disable some services if we discover other vulnerabilities. You can see the status of services on the status page at status.jenkins.io.

Further Updates

We may update this blog post, if there are any corrections to be made, and in that case we’ll clearly call those out at the top.

About the authors

Wadeck Follonier

Wadeck Follonier

Wadeck is the Jenkins security officer, leading the security team in improving Jenkins security. He likes to provide solutions that are both useful and easy to use.

Damien DUPORTAL

Damien DUPORTAL

Damien is the Jenkins Infrastructure officer and a software engineer at CloudBees working as a Site Reliability Engineer for the Jenkins Infrastructure project. Not only he is a decade-old Hudson/Jenkins user but also an open-source citizen who participates in Updatecli, Asciidoctor, Traefik and many others.

Mark Waite

Mark Waite

Mark is a member of the Jenkins governing board, a long-time Jenkins user and contributor, a core maintainer, and maintainer of the git plugin, the git client plugin, the platform labeler plugin, the embeddable build status plugin, and several others. He is one of the authors of the "Improve a plugin" tutorial.

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