CVE-2024-38808

Updated on 20 Aug 2024

Severity

4.3 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
4.3
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Overview

About vulnerability

In Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 - 5.3.38 and older unsupported versions, it is possible for a user to provide a specially crafted Spring Expression Language (SpEL) expression that may cause a denial of service (DoS) condition.

Specifically, an application is vulnerable when the following is true:

  • The application evaluates user-supplied SpEL expressions.

Details

Affected packages:
Spring Framework @ 5.3.29 (+2082 more)

In Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 - 5.3.38 and older unsupported versions, it is possible for a user to provide a specially crafted Spring Expression Language (SpEL) expression that may cause a denial of service (DoS) condition.

Specifically, an application is vulnerable when the following is true:

  • The application evaluates user-supplied SpEL expressions.

Fixes