Starting Spring Boot applications in the Spring Tools with the live information mode enabled makes the running application vulnerable against JMX-based remote code execution.
Affected Spring Products and Versions:
Spring Tools for Eclipse: 5.2.0 and earlier
Spring Tools for VSCode / Cursor / Theia: 2.2.0 and earlier
Attack Parameters
Attack Vector
Adjacent
Requires local network access
Attack Complexity
Low
Easy to exploit
Privileges Required
None
No privileges needed
User Interaction
Required
User action required
Impact Assessment
Confidentiality
High
Complete data leak
Integrity
High
Complete data modification
Availability
High
Complete denial of service
CVSS Vector v3.1