<Issue Description> Spring Security OAuth versions 2.5.x prior to 2.5.2 and older unsupported versions are susceptible to a…

Description

<Issue Description> Spring Security OAuth versions 2.5.x prior to 2.5.2 and older unsupported versions are susceptible to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack via the initiation of the Authorization Request in an OAuth 2.0 Client application. A malicious user or attacker can send multiple requests initiating the Authorization Request for the Authorization Code Grant, which has the potential of exhausting system resources using a single session. This vulnerability exposes OAuth 2.0 Client applications only.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.3% · top 30% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• Denial of Service (DoS)

Affected products

• Spring Security OAuth

  • affected <affected versions> Spring Security OAuth 2.5.x prior to 2.5.2 and older unsupported versions

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

• Mavenorg.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2GHSA-c2cp-3xj9-97w9 (opens in a new tab)

References (2)

• https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2022-22969 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.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-c2cp-3xj9-97w9 (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 3 Aug 2024, 03:28 UTC.