Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting spring-security-config package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-SPRINGSECURITYCONFIG-6229448
  • published6 Feb 2024
  • disclosed5 Feb 2024

Introduced: 5 Feb 2024

CVE-2023-34042  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 spring-security-config.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream spring-security-config package and not the spring-security-config package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

The spring-security.xsd file inside the spring-security-config jar is world writable which means that if it were extracted it could be written by anyone with access to the file system.

While there are no known exploits, this is an example of “CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource” and could result in an exploit. Users should update to the latest version of Spring Security to mitigate any future exploits found around this issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1