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CVE-2023-20883

spring-boot: Spring Boot Welcome Page DoS Vulnerability

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · May 18, 2023

Updated · October 2, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in Spring Boot, occurring prominently in Spring MVC with a reverse proxy cache. This issue requires Spring MVC to have auto-configuration enabled and the application to use Spring Boot's welcome page support, either static or templated, resulting in the application being deployed behind a proxy that caches 404 responses. This issue may cause a denial of service (DoS) attack.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption