Spring Core RCE (CVE-2022–22965) -A Deep Understanding

Kondah Mouad
Geek Culture
Published in
8 min readApr 2, 2022

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In this post, I provide a detailed explanation of CVE-2022–22965, providing the necessary background and a deep comprehensive understanding of the vulnerability.

We aim to answer the following questions:

  • What is CVE-2022–22965 ( how is it linked to CVE-2010–1622) ?
  • Why does it affects only JDK9+?
  • Why does it only affects Spring default binding?
  • Why does it only affects Spring applications deployed on Tomcat using WAR packaging?

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