Access Restriction Bypass Affecting org.springframework.security:spring-security-web 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-474642
  • published 17 Mar 2018
  • disclosed 16 Mar 2018
  • credit Macchinetta Framework Development Team

How to fix?

Upgrade org.springframework.security:spring-security-web to version 4.1.5.RELEASE, 4.2.4.RELEASE, 5.0.3.RELEASE 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 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