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GHSA-W3C8-7R8F-9JP8

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-11-18 06:30 – Updated: 2025-05-09 21:35

Summary

Spring MVC controller vulnerable to a DoS attack

Details

Spring MVC controller methods with an @RequestBody byte[] method parameter are vulnerable to a DoS attack.

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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  "id": "GHSA-w3c8-7r8f-9jp8",
  "modified": "2025-05-09T21:35:47Z",
  "published": "2024-11-18T06:30:35Z",
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  "summary": "Spring MVC controller vulnerable to a DoS attack"
}

CVE-2024-38828 (GCVE-0-2024-38828)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-18 03:45 – Updated: 2025-05-09 20:03

Summary

Spring MVC controller methods with an @RequestBody byte[] method parameter are vulnerable to a DoS attack.

Severity ?

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

vmware

References

URL

Tags

https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-38828

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Spring	Spring	Affected: 5.3.x , < 5.3.42 (commercial)

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GHSA-W3C8-7R8F-9JP8

CVE-2024-38828 (GCVE-0-2024-38828)

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