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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in JPA Server in HAPI FHIR

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 16, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

maven ca.uhn.hapi.fhir:hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base (Maven)

Affected versions

< 5.4.0

Patched versions

5.4.0

Description

JPA Server in HAPI FHIR before 5.4.0 allows a user to deny service (e.g., disable access to the database after the attack stops) via history requests. This occurs because of a SELECT COUNT statement that requires a full index scan, with an accompanying large amount of server resources if there are many simultaneous history requests.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 10, 2021
Reviewed May 19, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 16, 2021
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS score

0.128%
(49th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-32053

GHSA ID

GHSA-67f6-c8mx-4q2m

Source code

No known source code
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