CVE-2023-20883

At a glance

Severity: HIGH 7.5
EPSS: EPSS 0.91 % · percentile 60 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2023-05-26
Updated: 2025-01-16
Assigner: vmware
NVD status: Modified

Description

In Spring Boot versions 3.0.0 - 3.0.6, 2.7.0 - 2.7.11, 2.6.0 - 2.6.14, 2.5.0 - 2.5.14 and older unsupported versions, there is potential for a denial-of-service (DoS) attack if Spring MVC is used together with a reverse proxy cache.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

Advisories

GHSA-xf96-w227-r7c4 — Spring Boot Welcome Page Denial of Service

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-1651
GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-20883

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2025-AVI-0969 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2025-AVI-0756 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2024-AVI-0113 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2023-AVI-0398 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans le cadriciel VMware Spring · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 2.5.14
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 2.6.0 ≤ 2.6.14
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 2.7.0 ≤ 2.7.11
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* ≥ 3.0.0 ≤ 3.0.6

Affected products

Product	Versions
Spring Boot	affected Spring Boot versions 3.0.0 - 3.0.6, 2.7.0 - 2.7.11, 2.6.0 - 2.6.14, 2.5.0 - 2.5.14 and older unsupported versions

References

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD