Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Spring AMQP

published 2017-11-27 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-vqqg-xgv7-cf68 , EUVD-2022-5412

cvss: 9.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 3.6%; EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits: 0; none known

In Pivotal Spring AMQP versions prior to 1.7.4, 1.6.11, and 1.5.7, an org.springframework.amqp.core.Message may be unsafely deserialized when being converted into a string. A malicious payload could be crafted to exploit this and enable a remote code execution attack.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

maven org.springframework.amqp:spring-amqp 1.5.7, 1.6.11, 1.7.4

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-8045 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 8.1

springframework-amqp: Message.toString() deserializes java without a whitelist

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	9.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	7.5	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub	3.0	9.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.springframework.amqp:spring-amqp	<1.5.7 >=1.6.0, <1.6.11 >=1.7.0, <1.7.4	1.5.7 1.6.11 1.7.4

Affected products

n/a Spring AMQP Spring AMQP versions prior to 1.7.4, 1.6.11, and 1.5.7

Classification

Weakness

CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

pivotal.io /security/cve-2017-8045
web, vendor-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/100936
vdb-entry, web, third-party-advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8045
advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-8045
GitHub Advisory GHSA-vqqg-xgv7-cf68
NVD CVE-2017-8045

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Summary