On March 29, 2022, a critical vulnerability targeting the Spring Java framework was disclosed. This vulnerability was initially confused with a vulnerability in Spring Cloud, CVE-2022-22963. However, it was later identified as a separate vulnerability inside Spring Core, now tracked as CVE-2022-22965 and canonically named Spring4Shell.

Most company decision-making executives know how blockchain technology works but few have adopted it within their organization at this stage. This is the conclusion drawn by the latest Pulse survey conducted on 145 senior IT managers from companies on three continents. It shows that only 8% have experienced this technology, compared to 53% who know how it works but are yet to use it.

Our security researchers, engineers, and our Crowdsource community are actively working on understanding the vulnerabilities and developing tests. We have received a dozen POCs already and anticipate more over the coming days. While the situation is rapidly developing, here is what we know so far. The Spring Cloud Function vulnerability (CVE-2022-22963) was disclosed and patched earlier this week.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. Another day and another cyber heist. Not much to say really…

That’s right all, it’s time for the latest MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK® evaluation. As we have come to expect each year, Elastic — along with other security vendors — are evaluated by MITRE Engenuity, a tech foundation that brings MITRE research to the public. The evaluation focuses on emulating techniques from the MITRE ATT&CK (Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge) framework to assess vendor protection capabilities.

On Wednesday 30th March 2022, news was disclosed online about an unauthenticated RCE zero-day vulnerability in Spring Core, a framework for building modern Java-based enterprise applications.

“Never click unexpected links!” Ever hear someone yell this? Virtually every person in tech has a healthy suspicion of random links; it is for a good reason. Every now and then there are huge leaks from industry leaders as a result of a targeted campaign. One of the most reliable ways to “phish” someone, or exfiltrate their credentials, is to abuse an open redirect vulnerability in a safe-looking website and redirect the victims to a malicious one.

On Thursday, March 31st a patch for a widely used Java framework called the Spring Framework was given the designation CVE-2022-22965 with a CVSS Score of 9.8. That’s bad news for a lot of companies that make use of this framework for delivery of their web applications, services and APIs. This is a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability and the ease of exploitation is partly why it has earned a 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS Score.

On March 29, 2022, details of a zero-day vulnerability in Spring Framework (CVE-2022-22965) were leaked. For many, this is reminiscent of the zero-day vulnerability in Log4j (CVE-2021-44228) back in December 2021.