Medium Input validation

CVE-2026-59322 — Improper Input Validation in Vmware Spring Integration

The EmbeddedHeadersJsonMessageMapper defaults to an overly permissive header parsing posture in its constructor. When decodeNativeFormat processes raw byte payloads, it deserializes embedded JSON headers into a plain Map and constructs a GenericMessage with MutableMessageHeaders without sanitizing or filtering untrusted header names by default. Spring Integration 7.1.0 Spring Integration 7.0.0 - 7.0.5 Spring Integration 6.5.0 - 6.5.10 Spring Integration 6.4.0 - 6.4.12 Spring Integration 5.5.21 and earlier

Published Aug 27, 2026 · Updated Oct 15, 2026 · Sources: NIST National Vulnerability Database · CNA: security@vmware.com

Low

Who exploits it and how urgent it is

A 0–100 score combining confirmed exploitation, ransomware and APT use, public exploits, EPSS and severity.

No exploitation signal in the sources consulted so far.

How the score was calculated

Technical severity (medium)+3

The score orders the patch queue; it does not replace your asset context (internet exposure, criticality, compensating controls).

Triage

Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the sources call it.

Exploitation

Not confirmed

Not in CISA KEV — an absence of record, not proof it is unexploited.

EPSS FIRST

—

No EPSS score.

Affects

Vmware

Spring Integration

CVSS base

6.3

Medium · 2 source(s)

Remediation

Fixes and mitigations documented by the sources — linked to the original advisory.

No fix documented by the sources we poll. That does not mean none exists: check the vendor advisory.

First 24 hours

Ordered from the record’s own fields — exposure first, because you cannot patch what you have not found. A rule-generated starting point.

Identify exposed assets running the affected vendor/product/version combinations (Vmware Spring Integration).
No fix documented in the sources: reduce exposure and monitor the vendor advisory.
Search available logs for exploit probes matching the vulnerability class (input validation), errors and authentication anomalies.

Affected scope

Vendor, product and versions as the sources word them.

Vendor	Product	Versions	Status	Source
Vmware	Spring Integration	< 5.5.22≥ 6.4.0 and < 6.4.13≥ 6.5.0 and < 6.5.11≥ 7.0.0 and < 7.0.5.1≥ 7.1.0 and < 7.1.0.1	Vulnerable	NIST National Vulnerability Database

Attack characteristics

The CVSS vector, decoded. It describes the attack, not your exposure to it.

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

Low

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

Low

Every base score collected

Sources score independently and may disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.

Score	Version	Severity	Expl.	Impact	Scored by
6.3	CVSS 3.1	Medium	2.8	3.4	security@vmware.com via NIST National Vulnerability Database
6.3	CVSS 3.1	Medium	2.8	3.4	nvd@nist.gov via NIST National Vulnerability Database

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L (score shown at the top: nvd@nist.gov)

Weakness MITRE

Weakness class according to MITRE’s CWE catalog.

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation

Other CVEs with this weakness →

Detection

Read off the CVSS vector and the weakness class. Starting points, not tested rules.

Prioritize edge telemetry for the network-reachable component (proxy, WAF, IDS/IPS).

web/proxy/WAF logsnetwork IDS/IPS

Timeline

What happened to this CVE, newest first.

2026
Record published
Oct 15, 2026
CVSS changed · 6.3
Oct 15, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
Source status changed · → Analyzed
Oct 15, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
Record created in this database
Oct 15, 2026 · NIST National Vulnerability Database
CVE published
Aug 27, 2026 · security@vmware.com

Source activity

Repeated readings are counted rather than listed.

1× Official description updated · Oct 15, 2026 – Oct 15, 2026

References

1 on the record

spring.io/security/cve-2026-59322
Vendor Advisory, NIST National Vulnerability Database

Elsewhere on this site

Vmware
every CVE for this vendor

Input validation
same class

CWE-20
other pages naming this weakness

Related CVEs (same products)

High CVE-2026-59324 fluxTransform shared RequestMessageHolder causes cross-message header leakage under async fluxFunction Aug 27, 2026
Medium CVE-2026-59321 Shared JSR-223 ScriptEngine evaluated concurrently without THREADING check Aug 27, 2026
Medium CVE-2026-59311 Fixed predictable /tmp/ziptransformer work directory enables symlink pre-creation Aug 27, 2026
High CVE-2026-59307 Deserialization allow-list silently bypassed: setBeanClassLoader replaces deserializer but mapper keeps stale reference Aug 27, 2026
Medium CVE-2026-59293 SMB minimum protocol dialect defaults to SMB1 Aug 27, 2026
Low CVE-2026-59292 World-readable metadata file in PropertiesPersistingMetadataStore (insecure temp-file permissions) Aug 27, 2026

Not in any source we poll

Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.

No FIRST EPSS score.
No fixed version, patch or mitigation documented.
No CISA SSVC assessment.
No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.

Answered from this record

Text assembled only from the fields above — no additional claims.

What should defenders know first?

CVE-2026-59322 is "Improper Input Validation in Vmware Spring Integration", rated Medium. It affects Spring Integration (Vmware); versions are in the scope table. It is not in CISA KEV, which does not rule out exploitation. CVSS 6.3 describes technical severity. First verify whether exposed or business-critical assets run the affected versions, apply vendor fixes or mitigations, and preserve logs for review.

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