Goal

This rule detects attempted post-exploitation activity of CVE-2022-22965 with an HTTP GET parameter.

Strategy

This rule looks for @http.url_details.path = <RANDOM_FILE_NAME>.jsp, @http.url_details.queryString.pwd = *, and @http.url_details.queryString.cmd = <RANDOM_CMD_EXECUTION>. If found, it indicates web shell activity observed with successful Spring RCE exploitation.

Triage and response

Check your host to see if the {{@http.url_details.queryString.cmd}} command ran successfully. If so,

• Refer to your company’s Incident Response process since this is detection post-exploitation activity.
• Refer to the vendor’s advisory for remediation of this Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability.

Changelog

• 06 June 2022 - The severity has been lowered due to rule fidelity on just log telemetry.
• 31 March 2022 - Rule added in response to CVE-2022-22965