CVE-2022-31691: VMware Bosh Editor

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse version 4.16.0 and below as well as VSCode extensions such as Spring Boot Tools, Concourse CI Pipeline Editor, Bosh Editor and Cloudfoundry Manifest YML Support version 1.39.0 and below all use Snakeyaml library for YAML editing support. This library allows for some special syntax in the YAML that under certain circumstances allows for potentially harmful remote code execution by the attacker.

Affected products

• VMware Bosh Editor: from 1.0.0, before 1.40.0 (fixed in 1.40.0)
• VMware Cloudfoundry Manifest Yml Support: from 1.0.0, before 1.40.0 (fixed in 1.40.0)
• VMware Concourse Ci Pipeline Editor: from 1.0.0, before 1.40.0 (fixed in 1.40.0)
• VMware Spring Boot Tools: from 1.0.0, before 1.40.0 (fixed in 1.40.0)
• VMware Spring Tools: from 4.0.0, before 4.16.1 (fixed in 4.16.1)

Published 2022-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.