Vmware Spring Framework up to 5.3.38 SpEL Expression denial of service

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Vmware Spring Framework up to 5.3.38. Affected is an unknown function of the component SpEL Expression Handler. This manipulation causes denial of service. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-38808. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability has been found in Vmware Spring Framework up to 5.3.38 and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown processing of the component SpEL Expression Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

In Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 - 5.3.38 and older unsupported versions, it is possible for a user to provide a specially crafted Spring Expression Language (SpEL) expression that may cause a denial of service (DoS) condition. Specifically, an application is vulnerable when the following is true: * The application evaluates user-supplied SpEL expressions.

The advisory is shared at spring.io. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-38808 since 06/20/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 210367 (RHEL 8 : Red Hat Product OCP Tools 4.15 Openshift Jenkins (RHSA-2024:8884)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 5.3.39 or 6.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (210367). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Vendor

• Vmware

Name

• Spring Framework

Version

• 5.3.0
• 5.3.1
• 5.3.2
• 5.3.3
• 5.3.4
• 5.3.5
• 5.3.6
• 5.3.7
• 5.3.8
• 5.3.9
• 5.3.10
• 5.3.11
• 5.3.12
• 5.3.13
• 5.3.14
• 5.3.15
• 5.3.16
• 5.3.17
• 5.3.18
• 5.3.19
• 5.3.20
• 5.3.21
• 5.3.22
• 5.3.23
• 5.3.24
• 5.3.25
• 5.3.26
• 5.3.27
• 5.3.28
• 5.3.29
• 5.3.30
• 5.3.31
• 5.3.32
• 5.3.33
• 5.3.34
• 5.3.35
• 5.3.36
• 5.3.37
• 5.3.38

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.vmware.com/

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