VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2021-22097

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.07%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2021-10-28
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • security@vmware.com: CWE-502
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-502

Primary references