Spring Framework Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
May 2, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 29, 2023
Package
Affected versions
>= 1.1.0, <= 2.5.6
Patched versions
3.0.0.RELEASE
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Apr 27, 2009
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 2, 2022
Reviewed
Nov 8, 2022
Last updated
Jan 29, 2023
Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the java.util.regex.Pattern.compile method in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) before 1.6, when used with spring.jar in SpringSource Spring Framework 1.1.0 through 2.5.6 and 3.0.0.M1 through 3.0.0.M2 and dm Server 1.0.0 through 1.0.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via serializable data with a long regex string containing multiple optional groups, a related issue to CVE-2004-2540.
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