Asymmetric denial of service In org.springframework:spring-webflux

Description

Spring MVC and WebFlux applications are vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks when resolving static resources Spring MVC and WebFlux applications are vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks when resolving static resources.

More precisely, an application can be vulnerable when all the following are true:

    the application is using Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux

    the application is serving static resources from the file system

    the application is running on a Windows platform

When all the conditions above are met, the attacker can send malicious requests that are slow to resolve and that can keep HTTP connections in use. This can cause a Denial of Service on the application.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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