High
Security advisory
Spring Security versions 5.5.x prior to 5.5.1, 5.4.x prior to 5.4.7, 5.3.x prior to 5.3.10 and 5.2.x prior to 5.2.11 are susceptible to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack via the initiation of the Authorization Request in an OAuth 2.0 Client Web and WebFlux application. A malicious user or attacker can send multiple requests initiating the Authorization Request for the Authorization Code Grant, which has the potential of exhausting system resources using a single session or multiple sessions.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-22119
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Spring Security versions 5.5.x prior to 5.5.1, 5.4.x prior to 5.4.7, 5.3.x prior to 5.3.10 and 5.2.x prior to 5.2.11 are susceptible to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack via the initiation of the Authorization Request in an OAuth 2.0 Client Web and WebFlux application. A malicious user or attacker can send multiple requests initiating the Authorization Request for the Authorization Code Grant, which has the potential of exhausting system resources using a single session or multiple sessions.
osv:CVE-2021-22119
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:59.558711237Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r08a449010786e0bcffa4b5781b04fcb55d6eafa62cb79b8347680aad%40%3Cissues.nifi.apache.org%3E",
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r163b3e4e39803882f5be05ee8606b2b9812920e196daa2a82997ce14%40%3Cpluto-dev.portals.apache.org%3E",
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3868207b967f926819fe3aa8d33f1666429be589bb4a62104a49f4e3%40%3Cpluto-dev.portals.apache.org%3E",
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r390783b3b1c59b978131ac08390bf77fbb3863270cbde59d5b0f5fde%40%3Cpluto-dev.portals.apache.org%3E",
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r89aa1b48a827f5641310305214547f1d6b2101971a49b624737c497f%40%3Cpluto-dev.portals.apache.org%3E",
"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra53677224fe4f04c2599abc88032076faa18dc84b329cdeba85d4cfc%40%3Cpluto-scm.portals.apache.org%3E",
"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html",
"https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2021-22119",
"https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 439346,
"published_at": "2021-06-29T17:15:08.143+00:00"
}