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The CVE-2022-22965 vulnerability
On March 30th, 2022, a 0-day exploit in the popular Java framework was discovered that results in Remote Code Execution (RCE) via data binding.
More about this vulnerability might be found at https://spring.io/blog/2022/03/31/spring-framework-rce-early-announcement.
What is affected
The VIVO core source is not a Spring framework-based application, but there is dependency on spring-beans in [VIVO]/api/pom.xml.
Mitigation
- Please, check the version of spring-beans in the [VIVO]/api/pom.xml file and check whether that version is listed as affected by this vulnerability at https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-beans
- If in the column Vulnerabilities (https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-beans) there is a red link to one vulnerability, please do the following:
- replace the version tag value (https://github.com/vivo-project/VIVO/blob/main/api/pom.xml#L46) with 5.3.18
- redeploy VIVO (mvn clean install)
- If in the column Vulnerabilities (https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.springframework/spring-beans) there is a red link to one vulnerability, please do the following:
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