spring-security-core-5.4.6.jar vulnerability 

Issue date: 21-09-2021
Affects versions: 14.6

Security Issue ID

SECURITY-249

 

Affected Product Version(s)

14.6.0 and previous releases.

Severity 

medium

Description

CVE-2021-22119

 

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.

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

CVSSv2:

• Base Score: MEDIUM (5.0)
• Vector: /AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A

CVSSv3:

• Base Score: HIGH (7.5)
• Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Referenced In Projects/Scopes:

• • BrX SaaS CMS Dependencies:compile
  • BrX SaaS CMS:compile
  • Hippo Addon CRISP HST Tools:compile
  • Starter Store Addon Dependencies for SITE:compile
  • Starter Store Addon Dependencies for CMS:compile
  • Hippo Addon CRISP Core:compile
  • BrX SaaS Integration Tests:compile

Instructions

Customers using the 14.x major versions are recommended to upgrade to the latest version in that series.