GHSA-w9jg-gvgr-354m

Resource Exhaustion in Spring Security

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2021-22119
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Spring Security versions 5.5.x prior to 5.5.1, 5.4.x prior to 5.4.7, 5.3.x prior to 5.3.10 and 5.2.x prior to 5.2.11 are susceptible to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack via the initiation of the Authorization Request in an OAuth 2.0 Client Web and WebFlux application. A malicious user or attacker can send multiple requests initiating the Authorization Request for the Authorization Code Grant, which has the potential of exhausting system resources using a single session or multiple sessions.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-coreintroduced 5.5.0, fixed 5.5.1
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-coreintroduced 5.4.0, fixed 5.4.7
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-coreintroduced 5.3.0, fixed 5.3.10
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-coreintroduced 5.2.0, fixed 5.2.11
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-clientintroduced 5.5.0, fixed 5.5.1
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-clientintroduced 5.4.0, fixed 5.4.7
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-clientintroduced 5.3.0, fixed 5.3.10
Maven · org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-clientintroduced 5.2.0, fixed 5.2.11

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database