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Spring Security Vulnerable to Unauthorized User Impersonation when Using X.509 Client Certificates

GHSA-2jrg-rf5x-568g · CVE-2026-22747

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Description

Vulnerability in Spring Spring Security. SubjectX500PrincipalExtractor does not correctly handle certain malformed X.509 certificate CN values, which can lead to reading the wrong value for the username. In a carefully crafted certificate, this can lead to an attacker impersonating another user.
This issue affects Spring Security: from 7.0.0 through 7.0.4.

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