CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-22119

7.5 HIGH Published 2021-06-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-06-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-863

Description

Spring Security versions 5.5.x prior to 5.5.1, 5.4.x prior to 5.4.7, 5.3.x prior to 5.3.10 and 5.2.x prior to 5.2.11 are susceptible to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack via the initiation of the Authorization Request in an OAuth 2.0 Client Web and WebFlux application. A malicious user or attacker can send multiple requests initiating the Authorization Request for the Authorization Code Grant, which has the potential of exhausting system resources using a single session or multiple sessions.

Affected configurations

• vmware spring security (>= 5.2.0 < 5.2.11) • vmware spring security (>= 5.3.0 < 5.3.10) • vmware spring security (>= 5.4.0 < 5.4.7) • vmware spring security (>= 5.5.0 < 5.5.1) • oracle communications cloud native core policy 1.14.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization weakness

References