Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity Affecting org.springframework:spring-context package, versions [,5.2.21) [5.3.0, 5.3.19)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.07% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGSPRINGFRAMEWORK-2689634
  • published 14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 14 Apr 2022
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.springframework:spring-context to version 5.2.21, 5.3.19 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity via the patterns for disallowedFields on a DataBinder. As a result, a field is not effectively protected unless it is listed with both upper and lower case for the first character of the field, including nested fields within the property path.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
3.7 low
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

5.3 medium
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Red Hat

5.3 medium