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medium 5.3

CVE-2024-38828 json

CVE-2024-38828: DoS via Spring MVC controller method with byte[] parameter

published 2024-11-18 23 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-w3c8-7r8f-9jp8 , EUVD-2024-3320

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 54%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Spring MVC controller methods with an @RequestBody byte[] method parameter are vulnerable to a DoS attack.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework:spring-webmvc 5.3.42
  • Spring Spring 5.3.42
  • vmware spring 5.3.42

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-38828 updated cvss 5.3

org.springframework:spring-webmvc: DoS via Spring MVC controller method with byte[] parameter

  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 spring-webmvc Red Hat Build of Keycloak spring-webmvc Red Hat build of OptaPlanner 8 spring-webmvc
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 spring-webmvc
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 spring-webmvc
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 spring-webmvc
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Process Automation 7 spring-webmvc Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 spring-webmvc
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka spring-webmvc
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 spring-webmvc Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 spring-webmvc Red Hat Data Grid 8 spring-webmvc Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 spring-webmvc Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 spring-webmvc Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack spring-webmvc
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
23 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 54% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework:spring-webmvc
>=5.3.0, <5.3.42
5.3.42

Affected products

  • Spring Spring
  • vmware spring

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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