CVE-2021-22097: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

October 28, 2021 (updated November 1, 2021)

The Spring AMQP Message object’s 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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22097
tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2021-22097

Code Behaviors & Features

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