Authorization bypass in Spring Security

2022-05-2000:00:39

CWE-285

CWE-863

GitHub Advisory Database

github.com

7.5 High

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

9.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

0.009 Low

EPSS

Percentile

82.3%

JSON

In Spring Security versions 5.5.6 and 5.5.7 and older unsupported versions, RegexRequestMatcher can easily be misconfigured to be bypassed on some servlet containers. Applications using RegexRequestMatcher with . in the regular expression are possibly vulnerable to an authorization bypass.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

org.springframework.security\Matchspring-security-bom

CPENameOperatorVersion
org.springframework.security:spring-security-corelt5.4.11
org.springframework.security:spring-security-corelt5.5.7
org.springframework.security:spring-security-corelt5.6.4

Name	Operator	Version
org.springframework.security:spring-security-core	lt	5.4.11
org.springframework.security:spring-security-core	lt	5.5.7
org.springframework.security:spring-security-core	lt	5.6.4