SpEL Injection in Nepxion Discovery

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  "id": "a28d53fac7355caa5c5429b00d37b897b5357288e403ca0898244fdbfc516087",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-23463",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "SpEL Injection in Nepxion Discovery",
    "summary": "Nepxion Discovery is a solution for Spring Cloud. Discover is vulnerable to SpEL Injection in discovery-commons. DiscoveryExpressionResolver’s eval method is evaluating expression with a StandardEvaluationContext, allowing the expression to reach and interact with Java classes such as java.lang.Runtime, leading to Remote Code Execution. There is no patch available for this issue at time of publication. There are no known workarounds.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2022-23463",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2022-23463",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2022-23463",
        "GHSA-q979-9m39-23mq"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/nepxion/discovery",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "151eb35ba90052e9d13b35e980477a3e1bef4042"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:nepxion:discovery:*:*:*:*:*:spring_cloud:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "6.16.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "6.16.2",
            "6.16.1",
            "6.15.0",
            "6.14.0",
            "6.13.1",
            "6.12.1",
            "6.12.0",
            "6.11.0",
            "6.10.0",
            "6.9.0",
            "6.8.0",
            "6.7.0",
            "6.6.0",
            "6.5.0",
            "6.3.3",
            "6.3.2",
            "6.3.1",
            "6.2.0",
            "6.0.7",
            "6.0.6",
            "6.0.5",
            "6.0.2",
            "6.0.1",
            "5.5.3",
            "5.5.0",
            "5.4.2",
            "5.4.0",
            "5.3.9",
            "5.3.3",
            "5.3.0",
            "5.2.7",
            "5.2.3",
            "5.2.1",
            "5.2.0",
            "5.1.2",
            "5.1.0",
            "5.0.8",
            "4.8.7",
            "4.8.6",
            "4.8.5",
            "4.8.3",
            "4.8.2",
            "4.8.1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-23463.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:21.362496054Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23463.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23463",
        "https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2022-033_GHSL-2022-034_Discovery/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cwe_ids": [
          "CWE-917"
        ],
        "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "6.16.2"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "6.16.2"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
                "strategy": "StandaloneSingleVersion"
              }
            ]
          }
        ],
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/23xxx/CVE-2022-23463.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2022-23463",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 487736,
  "published_at": "2022-09-24T04:40:12+00:00"
}