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Spring-AMQP Remote Denial of Service - Out of Memory Error with a Large Message Body

MEDIUM | NOVEMBER 29, 2021 | CVE-2021-22095

Description

The Spring AMQP Message object, in its toString() method, will create a new String object from the message body, regardless of its size.

This can cause an OOM Error with a large message body.

Affected Spring Products and Versions

Spring AMQP:

  • 2.3.0 - 2.3.11
  • 2.2.0 - 2.2.19

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.
Fix versionAvailability
2.3.12OSS
2.2.20OSS

No further mitigation steps are necessary.

Credit

This issue was identified and responsibly reported by Vasily Kochnev.

References

History

  • 2021-11-29: Initial vulnerability report published.

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