Vulnerability Report

CVE-2009-1190

Title: Springsource Spring Framework Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2009-1190.

CWE Category CWE-399
Published Date Apr 27, 2009
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.80%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2009-1190: Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the java.util.regex.Pattern.compile method in Sun Java Development Kit (JDK) before 1.6, when used with spring.jar in SpringSource Spring Framework 1.1.0 through 2.5.6 and 3.0.0.M1 through 3.0.0.M2 and dm Server 1.0.0 through 1.0.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via serializable data with a long regex string containing multiple optional groups, a related issue to CVE-2004-2540.

Impacted Vendors

S
sun 1
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oracle 1
S
springsource 2
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hp 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/34892 http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/hitb06/DAY_1_-_Marc_Schoenefeld_-_Pentesting_Java_J2EE.pdf http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502926/100/0/threaded http://www.springsource.com/securityadvisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497161 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50083 http://secunia.com/advisories/34892 http://www.packetstormsecurity.org/hitb06/DAY_1_-_Marc_Schoenefeld_-_Pentesting_Java_J2EE.pdf http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/502926/100/0/threaded http://www.springsource.com/securityadvisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497161 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50083
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2009-1190 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.