Improper Access Control The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package spring-security  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-SPRINGSECURITY-6464978
  • published19 Mar 2024
  • disclosed18 Mar 2024

Introduced: 18 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-22257  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream spring-security package and not the spring-security package as distributed by RHEL.

In Spring Security, versions 5.7.x prior to 5.7.12, 5.8.x prior to 5.8.11, versions 6.0.x prior to 6.0.9, versions 6.1.x prior to 6.1.8, versions 6.2.x prior to 6.2.3, an application is possible vulnerable to broken access control when it directly uses the AuthenticatedVoter#vote passing a null Authentication parameter.