Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2 package, versions [0,2.5.2.RELEASE)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (39th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGSPRINGFRAMEWORKSECURITYOAUTH-2772728
  • published21 Apr 2022
  • disclosed21 Apr 2022
  • creditMacchinetta/TERASOLUNA Framework Development Team

Introduced: 21 Apr 2022

CVE-2022-22969  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2 to version 2.5.2.RELEASE or higher.

Overview

org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2 is a package that provides support for using Spring Security with OAuth (1a) and OAuth2.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the initiation of the Authorization Request in an OAuth 2.0 Client application. A malicious user 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.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

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