How severe is CVE-2022-22965?

CVE-2022-22965 has a CVSS score of 9.8/10, rated CRITICAL. Immediate patching is strongly recommended.

Which packages are affected by CVE-2022-22965?

Affected package information for CVE-2022-22965 is not yet fully mapped. Check the official advisory links for details.

How do I fix CVE-2022-22965?

No fixed version has been published for CVE-2022-22965 yet. Monitor the advisory for updates, apply mitigations recommended by the vendor, and use O3 Security to track when a fix becomes available in your stack.

Is CVE-2022-22965 actively exploited in the wild?

Yes. There are 106 known exploit references for CVE-2022-22965, including 65 in-the-wild exploitations observed on GitHub and other sources. Treat this as actively exploitable and prioritize patching immediately. All exploit code should only be run in an isolated sandbox environment for research or authorized testing — never against production systems without explicit written authorization.

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2022-22965?

CVE-2022-22965 has an EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) score of 94.4%, placing it in the 100th percentile of all CVEs. EPSS is maintained by FIRST.org and estimates the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. A score above 50% indicates significantly elevated exploitation risk — immediate patching is strongly recommended.

Is CVE-2022-22965 in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog?

Yes. CVE-2022-22965 (Spring Framework JDK 9+ Remote Code Execution Vulnerability) was added to CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on 2022-04-04. CISA required all US federal civilian agencies to remediate this vulnerability by 2022-04-25. The required action was: Apply updates per vendor instructions. Being listed in the KEV catalog is the strongest possible confirmation of active exploitation — treat this as a critical priority.

CISA KEV·Added 2022-04-04 — agencies required to remediate by 2022-04-25

CVE-2022-22965

Q: Can O3 Security detect CVE-2022-22965 in my codebase?

Yes. O3 Security's Impact-Aware SCA scanner identifies CVE-2022-22965 across all affected ecosystems (multiple ecosystems), correlates it against your dependency graph, and uses function-level reachability to confirm whether the vulnerable code path is actually reachable in your application — eliminating false positives. You can scan your stack for CVE-2022-22965 directly from the O3 platform.

CRITICAL

Also known asGHSA-36p3-wjmg-h94x

Published

Apr 1, 2022

Updated

Apr 10, 2026

Affected

0 pkgs

Patched

None yet

Exploits

106 known

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗

94.4%probability of exploitation in next 30 days

Very High Risk100th percentile0.00%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) is a daily probability model maintained by FIRST.org. It estimates the likelihood a CVE will be exploited in production environments within the next 30 days, derived from real-world threat intelligence signals.

Description

A Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux application running on JDK 9+ may be vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) via data binding. The specific exploit requires the application to run on Tomcat as a WAR deployment. If the application is deployed as a Spring Boot executable jar, i.e. the default, it is not vulnerable to the exploit. However, the nature of the vulnerability is more general, and there may be other ways to exploit it.

Exploits & PoCs

106

Research use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.