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Grails® data binding causes JVM crash and/or DoS

High
mattmoss published GHSA-3pjv-r7w4-2cf5 Dec 20, 2023

Package

maven grails-databinding (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 6.0.0, < 6.1.0
>= 5.0.0, < 5.3.4
>= 4.0.0, < 4.1.3
>= 3.0.0, < 3.3.17
>= 2.0.0, < 3.0.0

Patched versions

6.1.0
5.3.4
4.1.3
3.3.17

Description

Impact

A specially crafted web request can lead to a JVM crash or denial of service. Any Grails® framework application using Grails data binding is vulnerable.

Patches

Patches are available for Grails 3 and later.

Workarounds

No workaround is possible except to avoid data binding to request data.

References

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVE ID

CVE-2023-46131

Weaknesses