{"id":"CVE-2021-22097","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-22097","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:31:36.344Z","title":"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.","description":"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.","published":"2021-10-28T16:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:36:38.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@vmware.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-502"],"affected":["vmware/spring advanced message queuing protocol"],"epss":{"score":0.01071,"percentile":0.64646,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.07%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2021-22097","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@vmware.com"},{"url":"https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2021-22097","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22097","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}