CVE-2023-20863
Telemetry drift only. No threshold crossed and no authority ruling changed.
CVE record, CISA KEV and EPSS as of 2026-10-18.
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What to do now held facts and links
- Upgrade to the fixed version for your release line, or later: spring framework 5.2.24; spring framework 5.3.27; spring framework 6.0.8 upper bounds of the CVE record's affected ranges
- Later advisories still cover the fixes above and name higher ones: spring-expression 5.3.39 (CVE-2024-38808) OSV advisories
- Record your decision, dated and frozen with today's evidence: patch by a date · mitigated by a compensating control · deferred · accepted the risk · not affected
- Check your version against the ranges this record publishes.
What it is stated by the CNA
In spring framework versions prior to 5.2.24 release+ ,5.3.27+ and 6.0.8+ , it is possible for a user to provide a specially crafted SpEL expression that may cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.
- weakness
- CWE-400-Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- affected
- n/a Spring Framework
- published ranges
- vmware spring framework >= 5.2.0 < 5.2.24; vmware spring framework >= 5.3.0 < 5.3.27; vmware spring framework >= 6.0.0 < 6.0.8
- first unaffected version, by branch
- spring framework 5.2.24; spring framework 5.3.27; spring framework 6.0.8
- fixed by package (from OSV advisories)
- org.springframework:spring-expression (Maven): 5.2.24.RELEASE; 5.3.27; 6.0.8 GHSA-wxqc-pxw9-g2p8
- later fixes (from OSV advisories)
- spring-expression 5.2.24.RELEASE is inside a range CVE-2024-38808 (GHSA-9cmq-m9j5-mvww) lists as affected. That advisory is fixed in 5.3.39.spring-expression 5.3.27 is inside a range CVE-2024-38808 (GHSA-9cmq-m9j5-mvww) lists as affected. That advisory is fixed in 5.3.39.
- assigned by
- vmware
- published
- 2023-04-13
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Exploit code held, dated
- exploit code
- None held in the PoC-in-GitHub feed. A public repository changes this brief.
What moved held, dated
| date | EPSS | event |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Apr 2023 | 0.00043 | |
| 22 Apr 2023 | 0.00124 | |
| 8 May 2023 | 0.00177 | |
| 8 Jul 2023 | 0.00141 | |
| 17 Mar 2025 | 0.00569 | scoring model v2025.03.14 |
| 29 May 2026 | 0.01183 | |
| 7 Jun 2026 | 0.01066 | |
| 14 Jun 2026 | 0.00926 | |
| 15 Jun 2026 | 0.01122 | scoring model v2026.06.15 |
36 observations held. A step marked with a scoring model moved because the measurement was replaced, not because the vulnerability changed.
Outside the record researched, cited
This section reads the record's references and adds cited findings from outside it. It needs an account. Everything above is held facts and is complete without it.
What would change this brief held, dated
- CISA KEV
- Not listed in the catalogue we hold. A listing changes this brief.
- exploit probability
- 0.01 on 2026-06-15 (FIRST's EPSS, a probability and not evidence of exploitation). Next band line: 10% (0.10). Crossing a line changes this brief.
- fix
- Held: spring framework 5.2.24; spring framework 5.3.27; spring framework 6.0.8. A newer fix from the CNA or OSV changes this brief.
How to check this
Every value above is held with two dates: when it was true upstream (as_of) and when we recorded it (tx_from). Re-derive the exploit probability as it stood on any date:
SELECT value, source, source_version, as_of, tx_from
FROM volatile_valid_as_of('CVE-2023-20863', '2026-10-30T23:59:59.999999Z', now());