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.

Published: Jun 29, 2021
Updated: Nov 8, 2023
CVE: CVE-2021-22119
GHSA: GHSA-w9jg-gvgr-354m
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: High
Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

Severity: Medium
Score: 5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
vmware / spring_security	5.5.0	5.5.1
vmware / spring_security	5.4.0	5.4.7
vmware / spring_security	5.2.0	5.2.11
vmware / spring_security	5.3.0	5.3.10
oracle / communications_cloud_native_core_policy	1.14.0	1.14.0.x
org.springframework.security / spring-security-core	5.5.0	5.5.1
org.springframework.security / spring-security-core	5.4.0	5.4.7
org.springframework.security / spring-security-core	5.3.0	5.3.10
org.springframework.security / spring-security-core	5.2.0	5.2.11
org.springframework.security / spring-security-oauth2-client	5.5.0	5.5.1
org.springframework.security / spring-security-oauth2-client	5.4.0	5.4.7
org.springframework.security / spring-security-oauth2-client	5.3.0	5.3.10
org.springframework.security / spring-security-oauth2-client	5.2.0	5.2.11

Vulnerability Database

289,599

CVE-2021-22119