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MediumGHSA-wjjr-h4wh-w6vv CVE-2009-1190CWE-1333Published May 2, 2022

Spring Framework Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

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Affected versions

1.1.0 → fixed in 3.0.0.RELEASE

Details

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.

The fix

No fix commit could be resolved for this advisory (it may reference an issue tracker or a non-GitHub patch). See the references below.

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