
This is according to a VMware CVE report, which was not yet published, and Spring developers acknowledge that there might be other scenarios where the vulnerability could be exploited, even if the conditions above are not met.


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The vulnerability exists in the Spring Core library on JDK9+ and there is no mitigation at the moment besides Praetorian’s suggestion, which is still a temporary solution in the best case and requires source code changes in the vulnerable applications.

The Spring4Shell vulnerability is a zero-click Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability, meaning that a vulnerable system can be exploited remotely without any user interaction whatsoever by sending a crafted HTTP request to a vulnerable system (MITRE ATT&CK T1190). Screenshot below: helloexp’s 0day repository as it was shortly before being deleted, taken from Google’s cache
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On March 29, 2022, a Chinese security researcher going by the username “helloexp” published a proof of concept (PoC) on Github before deleting his account, in which one could find multiple exploits for different platforms such as Django, Docker, F5, Chrome, Windows and more. The framework can be used by any Java application and was one of the most popular frameworks in 2018. The Spring Framework is an open source application framework that provides infrastructure support for developing Java applications. Spring into action (with SIEM detection rules for Spring4shell)
