Investigate vulnerability: Spring Boot Welcome Page Denial of Service

Issue created from vulnerability 84

Description:

In Spring Boot versions 3.0.0 - 3.0.6, 2.7.0 - 2.7.11, 2.6.0 - 2.6.14, 2.5.0 - 2.5.14 and older unsupported versions, there is potential for a denial-of-service (DoS) attack if Spring MVC is used together with a reverse proxy cache.

• Severity: high
• Location: pom.xml

Solution:

Upgrade to versions 2.7.12, 3.0.7, 2.5.15, 2.6.15 or above.

Identifiers:

• GHSA-xf96-w227-r7c4
• Gemnasium-f99508f3-8824-4a4f-8bc3-33a64a6a3834
• CVE-2023-20883
• CWE-1035
• CWE-937

Links:

• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xf96-w227-r7c4
• https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/commit/418dd1ba5bdad79b55a043000164bfcbda2acd78
• https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/35552
• https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/releases/tag/v2.5.15
• https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/releases/tag/v2.6.15
• https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/releases/tag/v2.7.12
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20883
• https://spring.io/security/cve-2023-20883

Scanner:

• Name: GitLab SBoM Vulnerability Scanner