SB2023063053 - IBM Process Mining update for Spring Boot
Published: June 30, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023063053
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20883)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Specifically, an application is vulnerable if all of the conditions are true:
- The application has Spring MVC auto-configuration enabled. This is the case by default if Spring MVC is on the classpath.
- The application makes use of Spring Boot's welcome page support, either static or templated.
- Your application is deployed behind a proxy which caches 404 responses.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.