Missing Authentication for Critical Function Affecting io.awspring.cloud:spring-cloud-aws-autoconfigure package, versions [3.0.0-M1,4.0.2)
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- published22 May 2026
- disclosed7 May 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 7 May 2026
CVE-2026-44308 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade io.awspring.cloud:spring-cloud-aws-autoconfigure to version 4.0.2 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authentication for Critical Function in the SNS HTTP/HTTPS notification endpoints due to missing signature verification. An attacker can cause the application to process arbitrary payloads as legitimate notifications, auto-confirm subscriptions, or unsubscribe from attacker-controlled topics by sending crafted HTTP POST requests to the endpoint.
Workaround
This vulnerability can be mitigated by manually verifying the SNS message signature in a servlet filter or Spring HandlerInterceptor before the request reaches the controller, using SnsMessageManager from the AWS SDK v2 sns-message-manager module.