CVE-2023-34055: Spring Boot denial of service vulnerability

November 28, 2023

In Spring Boot versions 2.7.0 - 2.7.17, 3.0.0-3.0.12 and 3.1.0-3.1.5, it is possible for a user to provide specially crafted HTTP requests that may cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

Specifically, an application is vulnerable when all of the following are true:

the application uses Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux
org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-actuator is on the classpath

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-jjfh-589g-3hjx
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34055
spring.io/security/cve-2023-34055

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