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TI-2022-07523 Aliases CVE-2022-23463GHSA-q979-9m39-23mq

SpEL Injection in Nepxion Discovery

Priority HIGH 82CWE-917Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Code execution
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-917.

Summary

Nepxion Discovery is a solution for Spring Cloud. Discover is vulnerable to SpEL Injection in discovery-commons. DiscoveryExpressionResolver’s eval method is evaluating expression with a StandardEvaluationContext, allowing the expression to reach and interact with Java classes such as java.lang.Runtime, leading to Remote Code Execution. There is no patch available for this issue at time of publication. There are no known workarounds.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.02258 83rd percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
Yes
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
NepxionDiscover6.16.2 – 6.16.2—No fix listedCNA
—com.nepxion:discovery (Maven)up to 6.16.2—No fix listedGHSA-q979-9m39-23mq
  • Discover VendorNepxion Affected 6.16.2 – 6.16.2 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
  • com.nepxion:discovery (Maven) Vendor— Affected up to 6.16.2 Fixed in — No fix listed GHSA-q979-9m39-23mq

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:nepxion:discovery:*:*:*:*:*:spring_cloud:*:*up to 6.16.2VulnerableNepxion
  • cpe:2.3:a:nepxion:discovery:*:*:*:*:*:spring_cloud:*:* Versions up to 6.16.2 Vulnerable ·Nepxion

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-23463
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-q979-9m39-23mq

References

Exploit 1

Advisory 2

Other 1

  • TI-2022-07524 Potential Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Nepxion Discovery CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5

Sources

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