CVE-2018-15756
DoS Attack via Range Requests
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- dell
Description
Spring Framework, version 5.1, versions 5.0.x prior to 5.0.10, versions 4.3.x prior to 4.3.20, and older unsupported versions on the 4.2.x branch provide support for range requests when serving static resources through the ResourceHttpRequestHandler, or starting in 5.0 when an annotated controller returns an org.springframework.core.io.Resource. A malicious user (or attacker) can add a range header with a high number of ranges, or with wide ranges that overlap, or both, for a denial of service attack. This vulnerability affects applications that depend on either spring-webmvc or spring-webflux. Such applications must also have a registration for serving static resources (e.g. JS, CSS, images, and others), or have an annotated controller that returns an org.springframework.core.io.Resource. Spring Boot applications that depend on spring-boot-starter-web or spring-boot-starter-webflux are ready to serve static resources out of the box and are therefore vulnerable.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| dellCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.8% · top 4.8% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- Numeric Range Comparison Without Minimum Check
Affected products
- affected 5.1
- affected 5.0.0 – ≤ 5.0.9
- affected 4.3 – ≤ 4.3.19
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.springframework:spring-coreGHSA-ffvq-7w96-97p7 (opens in a new tab)
References (21)
- 105703 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [activemq-issues] 20190529 [jira] [Created] (ARTEMIS-2363) spring-core-5.0.1.RELEASE.jar vulnerable to CVE-2018-15756 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [activemq-issues] 20190529 [jira] [Commented] (ARTEMIS-2363) spring-core-5.0.1.RELEASE.jar vulnerable to CVE-2018-15756 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [activemq-issues] 20190529 [jira] [Updated] (ARTEMIS-2363) spring-core-5.0.1.RELEASE.jar vulnerable to CVE-2018-15756 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [activemq-issues] 20190626 [jira] [Assigned] (ARTEMIS-2363) spring-core-5.0.1.RELEASE.jar vulnerable to CVE-2018-15756 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [activemq-issues] 20190626 [jira] [Work logged] (ARTEMIS-2363) spring-core-5.0.1.RELEASE.jar vulnerable to CVE-2018-15756 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [activemq-issues] 20190716 [jira] [Commented] (ARTEMIS-2363) spring-core-5.0.1.RELEASE.jar vulnerable to CVE-2018-15756 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [activemq-issues] 20190826 [jira] [Reopened] (ARTEMIS-2363) spring-core-5.0.1.RELEASE.jar vulnerable to CVE-2018-15756 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [activemq-issues] 20190826 [jira] [Closed] (ARTEMIS-2363) spring-core-5.0.1.RELEASE.jar vulnerable to CVE-2018-15756 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [activemq-issues] 20190826 [jira] [Updated] (ARTEMIS-2363) spring-core-5.0.1.RELEASE.jar vulnerable to CVE-2018-15756 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
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- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-15756 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
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- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-ffvq-7w96-97p7 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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