GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-27xw-p8v6-9jjr Spring Security vulnerable to Authorization Bypass
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2018-15801
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- org.springframework.security:spring-security-core, org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-jose
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-345
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• Maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-core: >= 5.1.0, < 5.1.2 → fixed in 5.1.2
• Maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-jose: >= 5.1.0, < 5.1.2 → fixed in 5.1.2
Description
Spring Security versions 5.1.x prior to 5.1.2 contain an authorization bypass vulnerability during JWT issuer validation. In order to be impacted, the same private key for an honest issuer and a malicious user must be used when signing JWTs. In that case, a malicious user could fashion signed JWTs with the malicious issuer URL that may be granted for the honest issuer.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2018-15801 Spring Security versions 5.1.x prior to 5.1.2 contain an authorization bypass vulnerability during JWT issuer validation. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-345 Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15801 advisory
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/c70b65c5df0e170a2d34d812b83db0b7bc71ea25 web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-27xw-p8v6-9jjr advisory
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security package
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-15801 web