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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-38809

High
7.5/10

Summary

The package org.springframework:spring-web versions through 5.3.37, 6.0.0-M1 through 6.0.22, and 6.1.0-M1 through 6.1.11 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to improper ETag prefix validation when the application parses ETags from the If-Match or If-None-Match request headers. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a maliciously crafted conditional HTTP request.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published