Resource exhaustion in Play Framework - CVE-2022-31018
Published: June 7, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU64012
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31018
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when binding forms from JSON in the Form#bindFromRequest method. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Play Framework
How to mitigate CVE-2022-31018
Install update from vendor's website.
Play Framework - update to 2.8.16