CVE-2022-23463: Nepxion Discovery

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nepxion Discovery is a solution for Spring Cloud. Discover is vulnerable to SpEL Injection in discovery-commons. DiscoveryExpressionResolver’s eval method is evaluating expression with a StandardEvaluationContext, allowing the expression to reach and interact with Java classes such as java.lang.Runtime, leading to Remote Code Execution. There is no patch available for this issue at time of publication. There are no known workarounds.

Affected products

• Nepxion Discovery: up to and including 6.16.2

Published 2022-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.