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CVE-2018-15756

Medium

Elevated severity or exploit probability.

CVSS base
7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
9.2%
95.1th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
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Published 2018-10-18 · modified 2026-08-25

CVSS breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorNNetwork
Attack ComplexityLLow
Privileges RequiredNNone
User InteractionNNone
ScopeUUnchanged
ConfidentialityNNone
IntegrityNNone
AvailabilityHHigh

Timeline

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.

Affected

debian oracle vmware

References

Official: NVD · CVE.org