CVE-2021-22097

MEDIUM

Spring AMQP 2.2.0-2.2.18 and 2.3.0-2.3.10 - Denial of Service via Malicious Dictionary Deserialization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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)

Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2021-22097

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0043
EPSS Percentile 63.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-502
Status published
Products (2)
org.springframework.amqp/spring-amqp 2.2.0 - 2.2.19Maven
vmware/spring_advanced_message_queuing_protocol 2.2.0 - 2.2.18
Published Oct 28, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026