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Spring Framework DoS via Data Binding to MultipartFile or Servlet Part

MEDIUM | MAY 11, 2022 | CVE-2022-22970

Description

A Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux application that handles file uploads is vulnerable to DoS attack if it relies on data binding to set a MultipartFile or javax.servlet.Part to a field in a model object.

Affected Spring Products and Versions

Spring Framework:

  • 5.3.0 - 5.3.19
  • 5.2.21 and earlier

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.
Fix versionAvailability
5.3.20OSS
5.2.22OSS

No further mitigation steps are necessary.

Credit

This vulnerability was responsibly reported to VMware by Rob Ryan from Adobe Inc. Related variations were also reported by WeBin Lab of Dbappsecurity and by Vivek Sharm from Arcesium.

References

History

  • 2022-05-11: Initial vulnerability report published.

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