CVE-2021-22119

Published: 29 June 2021

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.

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 7.5

Status

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-22119
• https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2021-22119
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian