SB2023112967 - Multiple DoS vulnerabilities in Spring Boot server Web Observations

Security Bulletin ID SB2023112967

Severity

Medium

Patch available

YES

Number of vulnerabilities 2

Exploitation vector Remote access

Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Low
Medium
High
Critical

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-34055)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Web Observations. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that application is using Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux and that org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-actuator is on the classpath.

2) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-34053)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Web Observations. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2023-34055