Security advisory

{
  "id": "207c0dbafcdd2ae72f4893913b5d1daa13c3b20a7e4fd926b973eb9a90cbe5df",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-22097",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-22097",
    "summary": "In Spring AMQP versions 2.2.0 - 2.2.18 and 2.3.0 - 2.3.10, the Spring AMQP Message object, in its toString() method, will deserialize a body for a message with content type application/x-java-serialized-object. It is possible to construct a malicious java.util.Dictionary object that can cause 100% CPU usage in the application if the toString() method is called.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-22097",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-22097",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2021-22097",
        "GHSA-fx7f-rjqj-52pj"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-amqp",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "e45f1a8ae69e88a2738a98b63d4dc7c20c6d44ff"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "2416fd0263da4563b3ace98788bca716745f2532"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "0e6ef48c09c6d0d65d2876c7ca2c8b75c4545b54"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "6ff5915661cfc031f5cac82d2d9eb8983126b294"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_advanced_message_queuing_protocol:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.2.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.2.18"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_advanced_message_queuing_protocol:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.3.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.3.10"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v2.3.10",
            "v2.3.9",
            "v2.3.8",
            "v2.2.18.RELEASE",
            "v2.3.7",
            "v2.2.17.RELEASE",
            "v2.3.6",
            "v2.2.16.RELEASE",
            "v2.3.5",
            "v2.2.15.RELEASE",
            "v2.3.4",
            "v2.3.3",
            "v2.2.14.RELEASE",
            "v2.3.2",
            "v2.2.13.RELEASE",
            "v2.3.1",
            "v2.3.0",
            "v2.2.12.RELEASE",
            "v2.2.11.RELEASE",
            "v2.2.10.RELEASE",
            "v2.2.9.RELEASE",
            "v2.2.8.RELEASE",
            "v2.2.7.RELEASE",
            "v2.2.6.RELEASE",
            "v2.2.5.RELEASE",
            "v2.2.4.RELEASE",
            "v2.2.3.RELEASE",
            "v2.2.2.RELEASE",
            "v2.2.1.RELEASE",
            "v2.2.0.RELEASE"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-22097.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:40.571737100Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2021-22097"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-22097",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 434957,
  "published_at": "2021-10-28T16:15:08.023+00:00"
}