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CVE-2021-33609 (GCVE-0-2021-33609)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-13 10:58 – Updated: 2024-09-16 21:04
VLAI
Title
Denial of service in DataCommunicator class in Vaadin 8
Summary
Missing check in DataCommunicator class in com.vaadin:vaadin-server versions 8.0.0 through 8.14.0 (Vaadin 8.0.0 through 8.14.0) allows authenticated network attacker to cause heap exhaustion by requesting too many rows of data.
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Vaadin Vaadin Affected: 8.0.0 , < unspecified (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ 8.14.0 (custom)
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Vaadin vaadin-server Affected: 8.0.0 , < unspecified (custom)
Affected: unspecified , ≤ 8.14.0 (custom)
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Date Public
2021-10-13 00:00
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