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Authorization bypass in Spring Security

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 20, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Oct 4, 2024

Package

maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-core (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 5.6.0, < 5.6.4
>= 5.5.0, < 5.5.7
< 5.4.11

Patched versions

5.6.4
5.5.7
5.4.11
maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-web (Maven)
>= 5.5.0, < 5.5.7
>= 5.6.0, < 5.6.4
< 5.4.11
5.5.7
5.6.4
5.4.11

Description

In Spring Security versions 5.5.6 and 5.5.7 and older unsupported versions, RegexRequestMatcher can easily be misconfigured to be bypassed on some servlet containers. Applications using RegexRequestMatcher with . in the regular expression are possibly vulnerable to an authorization bypass.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 19, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 20, 2022
Reviewed May 25, 2022
Last updated Oct 4, 2024

Severity

Critical

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.854%
(83rd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-22978

GHSA ID

GHSA-hh32-7344-cg2f

Source code

Credits

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