Denial of service in DataCommunicator class in Vaadin 8

published 2021-10-13 5y ago modified 2024-12-02 last yr.

cvss: 4.3; version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: —; no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits: 0; none known

Missing check in `DataCommunicator` class in `com.vaadin:vaadin-server` versions 8.0.0 through 8.14.0 (Vaadin 8.0.0 through 8.14.0) allows authenticated network attacker to cause heap exhaustion by requesting too many rows of data.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1 links 1

maven com.vaadin:vaadin-server 8.14.1

github.com/vaadin/framework#12415 pull request

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CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
GitHub	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	com.vaadin:vaadin-server	>=8.0.0, <8.14.1	8.14.1

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

GitHub Advisory GHSA-j23j-q57m-63v3

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