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CVE-2022-46166 Spring boot admin

Affected softwareSpring boot admin
Severity9.8 Critical CVSS 3.1 2 scores
Fixed in2.6.10, 2.7.8, 3.0.0-M6
WeaknessCode injection (CWE-94)
Published9 Dec 2022
Updated17 Jun 2026

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.

Exploitation status

No public exploit

No exploit has been reported in the sources we check. The 1 repository below are public GitHub repositories with fewer than 5 stars.

  • CISA KEV not listed
  • VulnCheck KEV not listed
  • CISA Vulnrichment exploitation: none
  • Indexed PoC 1 indexed, none at 5+ stars
  • EPSS 1.6% chance in 30 days

1 of these are GitHub repositories with fewer than 5 stars. They are listed for reference and don't count toward the exploitation status above.

IndexArtifactStarsFirst seen
GitHub PoC shoucheng3/codecentric__spring-boot-admin_CVE-2022-46166_2-6-9 1 2025-08-17

Waratek protection

No exploit published

Within Waratek scope. In the sources we check, nobody has published exploit code for this CVE or reported it being exploited.

A public code fix exists: codecentric/spring-boot-admin c14c3ec.

  • Protection none
  • Action unverified
  • Review automated Upstream data
  • Record active
Decided by Exploit code for this candidate, published in a reviewed catalogue or a GitHub repository with 5 or more stars, or in use per CISA or VulnCheck; not only a CISA verdict, a forecast, or nothing at all
Finding This CVE is not listed in CISA KEV or VulnCheck KEV, CISA Vulnrichment records no active exploitation, no reviewed exploit catalogue carries an entry for it, and no GitHub PoC repository for it has 5 or more stars. Nobody has published exploit code worth tracing, so it is not a candidate for a rule ahead of the ones where somebody has; an upstream fix path does exist, so the remediation half of the candidacy still holds. This is a statement about what has been published, not about whether the defect is reachable or serious.
Candidate fix https://github.com/codecentric/spring-boot-admin/commit/c14c3ec12533f71f84de9ce3ce5ceb7991975f75 : a commit: the change itself

CVSS

9.8 CRITICAL v3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 2 metrics

We show the highest score from the newest CVSS version. Scores from different versions can't be compared, and the first score listed is sometimes a 0.0 placeholder.

VersionScoreBandVectorAssignerType
CVSS 3.1 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H NVD Primary published
CVSS 3.1 8.0 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H security-advisories@github.com Secondary

Affected software and releases

Maven packages

Affected and fixed versions, from OSV.dev
PackageIntroducedFixedLast affected
de.codecentric:spring-boot-admin 0 2.6.10 unbounded
de.codecentric:spring-boot-admin 2.7.0 2.7.8 unbounded
de.codecentric:spring-boot-admin 3.0.0-M1 3.0.0-M6 unbounded

Products and versions

2 products, 10 version entries
SourceVendorProductSchemeAffected versions
nvd codecentric spring boot admin generic < 2.6.10 · ≥ 2.7.0 and < 2.7.8 · 3.0.0:m1 · 3.0.0:m2 · 3.0.0:m3 · 3.0.0:m4 · 3.0.0:m5
osv de.codecentric spring-boot-admin generic < 2.6.10 · ≥ 2.7.0 and < 2.7.8 · ≥ 3.0.0 and < 3.0.0

References

URLTags
https://github.com/codecentric/spring-boot-admin/commit/c14c3ec12533f71f84de9ce3ce5ceb7991975f75 commit
https://github.com/codecentric/spring-boot-admin/security/advisories/GHSA-w3x5-427h-wfq6 WEB
https://github.com/codecentric/spring-boot-admin PACKAGE

Timeline

Published2022-12-09By the CVE Program.
NVD record modified2026-06-17NVD's own last-modified date for this record.