What is CVE-2022-31679?

CVE-2022-31679 is a low-severity vulnerability in VMware Spring Data Rest. CVSS score: 3.7/10. Published 2022-09-21.

How severe is CVE-2022-31679?

Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.7 out of 10.

Vulnerability in VMware Spring Data Rest

CVE-2022-31679

Applications that allow HTTP PATCH access to resources exposed by Spring Data REST in versions 3.6.0 - 3.5.5, 3.7.0 - 3.7.2, and older unsupported versions, if an attacker knows about the structure of the underlying domain model, they can craft HTTP requests that expose hidden entity attributes.

Published 2022-09-21 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 3.7 (Low). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (44.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 44th percentile — 44.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.006 · change: +0.001

Affected products

VMware Spring Data Rest
Spring Data Rest — versions Spring Data REST Versions before 3.6.7 and 3.7.3

References

tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2022-31679 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-31679?: CVE-2022-31679 is a low-severity vulnerability in VMware Spring Data Rest. CVSS score: 3.7/10. Published 2022-09-21.
How severe is CVE-2022-31679?: Low severity. CVSS v3 base score is 3.7 out of 10.