CVE-2021-22097

MEDIUM

Vmware Spring Advanced Message Queuin... - Insecure Deserialization

Title source: rule

Description

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.

References (1)

[Vendor Advisory] https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2021-22097

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0043

EPSS Percentile 62.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-502

Status published

Affected Products (2)

vmware/spring_advanced_message_queuing_protocol < 2.2.18

org.springframework.amqp/spring-amqp < 2.2.19Maven

Timeline

Published Oct 28, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026