Resource exhaustion in Play Framework - CVE-2022-31018

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Resource exhaustion in Play Framework - CVE-2022-31018

Published: June 7, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU64012
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31018
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Play Framework
Software vendor:
Lightbend

Description

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

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