GHSA-wjjr-h4wh-w6vvMedium

Spring Framework Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Published
May 2, 2022
Last Modified
January 29, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the java.util.regex.Pattern.compile method in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) before 1.6, when used with spring.jar in SpringSource Spring Framework 1.1.0 through 2.5.6 and 3.0.0.M1 through 3.0.0.M2 and dm Server 1.0.0 through 1.0.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via serializable data with a long regex string containing multiple optional groups, a related issue to CVE-2004-2540.

🎯 Affected products1

  • maven/org.springframework:spring-core:>= 1.1.0, <= 2.5.6

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