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Authorization Bypass Affecting org.springframework.security:spring-security-web package, versions [,5.4.11) [5.5.0,5.5.7) [5.6.0,5.6.4)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.85% (83rd percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical
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Red Hat
9.8 critical

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGSPRINGFRAMEWORKSECURITY-2833359
  • published 18 May 2022
  • disclosed 18 May 2022
  • credit Hiroki Nishino, Toshiki Sasazaki, Yoshinori Hayashi, Jonghwan Kim
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Introduced: 18 May 2022

CVE-2022-22978 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-285 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.springframework.security:spring-security-web to version 5.4.11, 5.5.7, 5.6.4 or higher.

Overview

org.springframework.security:spring-security-web is a package within Spring Security that provides security services for the Spring IO Platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Authorization Bypass via the RegexRequestMatcher class, which can easily be misconfigured to be bypassed on some servlet containers when it is used with . in the regular expression.