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CVE-2023-20883

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-20883 describes a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability affecting 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, specifically when Spring MVC is used with a reverse proxy cache. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that can lead to a high impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.5.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.6.0, <= 2.6.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.7.0, <= 2.7.11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.0.0, <= 3.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_boot:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.90%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
56.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0090 is in the 31st percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (13)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-autoconfigureFixed in: 3.0.7
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-autoconfigureFixed in: 2.7.12
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-autoconfigureFixed in: 2.6.15
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-autoconfigureFixed in: 2.5.15
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat build of OptaPlanner 8Fixed in: spring-boot
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Fuse 7.12Fixed in: spring-boot
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.18.3.P2Fixed in: spring-boot
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.20.1.P1Fixed in: spring-boot
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHPAM 7.13.4 asyncFixed in: spring-boot
View patch
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Migration Toolkit for RuntimesFixed in: spring-boot
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: log4j:2/log4j
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: log4j
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat support for Spring BootFixed in: spring-boot

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-xf96-w227-r7c4high

Spring Boot Welcome Page Denial of Service

May 26, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-20883Important

spring-boot: Spring Boot Welcome Page DoS Vulnerability

May 18, 2023

References

security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20230703-0008
spring.io / security/cve-2023-20883
Vendor Advisory