Spring Security Advisories

CVE-2022-22979: Spring Cloud Function Dos Vulnerability

HIGH | JUNE 15, 2022 | CVE-2022-22979

Description

In Spring Cloud Function versions 3.2.5 and older unsupported versions, it is possible for a user who directly interacts with framework provided lookup functionality to cause denial of service condition due to the caching issue in Function Catalog component of the framework. At the time of writing of this CVE such interaction is only possible via spring-cloud-function-web module.

Affected Spring Products and Versions

  • Spring Cloud Function
    • 3.2.5
    • Older, unsupported versions are also affected

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should upgrade to 3.2.6. No other steps are necessary. Releases that have fixed this issue include:

  • Spring Cloud Function
    • 3.2.6

Credit

This vulnerability was initially discovered and responsibly reported by [email protected].

History

  • 2022-06-15: Initial vulnerability report published.

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