CVE-2018-15801

Spring Security versions 5.1.x prior to 5.1.2 contain an authorization bypass vulnerability during JWT issuer validation. In order to be impacted, the same private key for an honest issuer and a malicious user must be used when signing JWTs. In that case, a malicious user could fashion signed JWTs with the malicious issuer URL that may be granted for the honest issuer.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.4 High

Status

Modified - security_alert@emc.com

Published

2018-12-19

Last modified

2024-09-16

Weaknesses

CWE-345

Affected products

• Spring Security (Spring By Pivotal)
• Spring Framework (Vmware)

References

• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-15801