Denial-of-Service (DoS) in spring-security-oauth2

CRITICAL | APRIL 21, 2022 | CVE-2022-22969

Description

Spring Security OAuth versions 2.5.x prior to 2.5.2 and older unsupported versions are susceptible to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack via the initiation of the Authorization Request in an OAuth 2.0 Client 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. This vulnerability exposes OAuth 2.0 Client applications only.

Affected Spring Products and Versions

Spring Security OAuth:

  • 2.5.1 and earlier

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.
Fix versionAvailability
2.5.2OSS

No further mitigation steps are necessary.

Credit

This issue was identified and responsibly reported by Macchinetta/TERASOLUNA Framework Development Team.

History

  • 2022-04-21: Initial vulnerability report published.

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