HIGH 7.4 Maven
Spring Security vulnerable to Authorization Bypass
GHSA-27xw-p8v6-9jjr · CVE-2018-15801
Published · Modified
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.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15801
- WEB https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/c70b65c5df0e170a2d34d812b83db0b7bc71ea25
- ADVISORY https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-27xw-p8v6-9jjr
- PACKAGE https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security
- WEB https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-15801
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