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High · 8.1 Public exploit CVE-2022-46166 EUVD-2022-7754GHSA-w3x5-427h-wfq6

Spring Boot Admins integrated notifier support allows arbitrary code execution

Published Dec 9, 2022 · Updated Apr 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Vendor: codecentric Product: spring-boot-admin Package: de.codecentric:spring-boot-admin Ecosystem: Maven

Description

Spring boot admins is an open source administrative user interface for management of spring boot applications. All users who run Spring Boot Admin Server, having enabled Notifiers (e.g. Teams-Notifier) and write access to environment variables via UI are affected. Users are advised to upgrade to the most recent releases of Spring Boot Admin 2.6.10 and 2.7.8 to resolve this issue. Users unable to upgrade may disable any notifier or disable write access (POST request) on `/env` actuator endpoint.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
codecentric spring-boot-admin < 2.6.10 —

Public exploits

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Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven de.codecentric:spring-boot-admin < 2.6.10 2.6.10 GHSA-w3x5-427h-wfq6
Maven de.codecentric:spring-boot-admin >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.8 2.7.8 GHSA-w3x5-427h-wfq6
Maven de.codecentric:spring-boot-admin >= 3.0.0-M1, < 3.0.0-M6 3.0.0-M6 GHSA-w3x5-427h-wfq6

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