Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-22097 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in VMWare Spring Advanced Message Queuing Protocol
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
SINGLE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
In Spring AMQP versions 2.2.0 - 2.2.18 and 2.3.0 - 2.3.10, the Spring AMQP Message object, in its 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.