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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-38828

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

Spring MVC controller methods with an "@RequestBody byte[]" method parameter are vulnerable to a DoS attack. This issue affects the package org.springframework:spring-webmvc versions through 5.3.41, and 6.0.0-M1 through 6.0.0-RC4.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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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