Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.springframework.security:spring-security-config package, versions [4.1.0.RELEASE, 4.1.5.RELEASE) [4.2.0.RELEASE, 4.2.4.RELEASE) [5.0.0.RELEASE, 5.0.3.RELEASE)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.18% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGSPRINGFRAMEWORKSECURITY-474641
  • published 17 Mar 2018
  • disclosed 16 Mar 2018
  • credit Macchinetta Framework Development Team

How to fix?

Upgrade org.springframework.security:spring-security-config to version 4.1.5.RELEASE, 4.2.4.RELEASE, 5.0.3.RELEASE or higher.

Overview

org.springframework.security:spring-security-config is a security configuration package for Spring Framework.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. It does not consider URL path parameters when processing security constraints. By adding a URL path parameter with special encodings, an attacker may be able to bypass a security constraint.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

5.3 medium