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VMware released updates to fix the Spring4Shell vulnerability in multiple products

VMware released security updates to address the critical remote code execution vulnerability known as Spring4Shell.

VMware has published security updates to address the critical remote code execution vulnerability known as Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965). According to the virtualization giant, the flaw impacts many of its cloud computing and virtualization products.

The Spring4Shell issue was disclosed last week, it resides in the Spring Core Java framework. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could trigger the vulnerability to execute arbitrary code on the target system. The framework is currently maintained by Spring.io which is a subsidiary of VMware.

The Spring Framework is an application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform. The framework’s core features can be used by any Java application, but there are extensions for building web applications on top of the Java EE (Enterprise Edition) platform.

The vulnerability was disclosed after a Chinese security researcher published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit before deleting its account (helloexp).

Now VMware published a list of affected products, the company also released workarounds for those products that have yet to receive a security fix for the Spring4Shell.

“Multiple products impacted by remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2022-22965).” reads the advisory published by VMware. “A malicious actor with network access to an impacted VMware product may exploit this issue to gain full control of the target system.”

The flaw impacts VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs, VMware Tanzu Operations Manager, and VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Integrated Edition (TKGI).

VMware announced that it is still investigating this flaw and will update the advisory should any changes evolve.

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Pierluigi Paganini

(SecurityAffairs – hacking, Spring4shell)

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Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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