GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-9gp8-6cg8-7h34 Spring Security's spring-security.xsd file is world writable
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-34042
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- org.springframework.security:spring-security-config
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
- Reviewed
- 2024-02-06
Affected packages
• Maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-config: >= 6.1.1, < 6.1.4 → fixed in 6.1.4
• Maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-config: >= 6.0.4, < 6.0.7 → fixed in 6.0.7
• Maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-config: >= 5.8.4, < 5.8.7 → fixed in 5.8.7
• Maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-config: >= 5.7.9, < 5.7.11 → fixed in 5.7.11
Description
The spring-security.xsd file inside the spring-security-config jar is world writable which means that if it were extracted it could be written by anyone with access to the file system.
While there are no known exploits, this is an example of “CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource” and could result in an exploit. Users should update to the latest version of Spring Security to mitigate any future exploits found around this issue.
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Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-34042 The spring-security.xsd file inside the spring-security-config jar is world writable which means that if it were extracted it could be… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34042 advisory
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/5b293d21161e946bf241d9e974b9af93cfafaaac web
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security package
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241129-0010 web
- https://spring.io/security/cve-2023-34042 web