CVE-2023-20861
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Spring Framework vulnerable to denial of service via specially crafted SpEL expression
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | affected | |
| debian | bullseye | affected | |
| debian | forky | affected | |
| debian | sid | affected | |
| debian | trixie | affected | |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.springframework:spring-expression | >=6.0.0,<6.0.7 | 6.0.7 |
| Maven | org.springframework:spring-expression | >=5.3.0,<5.3.26 | 5.3.26 |
| Maven | org.springframework:spring-expression | <5.2.23.RELEASE | 5.2.23.RELEASE |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20861
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/430fc25acad2e85cbdddcd52b64481691f03ebd1
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/52c93b1c4b24d70de233a958e60e7c5822bd274f
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/935c29e3ddba5b19951e54f6685c70ed45d9cbe5
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230420-0007
- https://spring.io/security/cve-2023-20861
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-20861
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.