CVE-2018-15758

Summary

CVECVE-2018-15758
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-10-18 22:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionSpring Security OAuth, versions 2.3 prior to 2.3.4, and 2.2 prior to 2.2.3, and 2.1 prior to 2.1.3, and 2.0 prior to 2.0.16, and older unsupported versions could be susceptible to a privilege escalation under certain conditions. A malicious user or attacker can craft a request to the approval endpoint that can modify the previously saved authorization request and lead to a privilege escalation on the subsequent approval. This scenario can happen if the application is configured to use a custom approval endpoint that declares AuthorizationRequest as a controller method argument. This vulnerability exposes applications that meet all of the following requirements: Act in the role of an Authorization Server (e.g. @EnableAuthorizationServer) and use a custom Approval Endpoint that declares AuthorizationRequest as a controller method argument. This vulnerability does not expose applications that: Act in the role of an Authorization Server and use the default Approval Endpoint, act in the role of a Resource Server only (e.g. @EnableResourceServer), act in the role of a Client only (e.g. @EnableOAuthClient).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pivotal Software Spring Security Oauth All All All All
Application Pivotal Software Spring Security Oauth All All All All
Application Pivotal Software Spring Security Oauth All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2018-15758: Privilege Escalation in spring-security-oauth2 | Security | Pivotal CONFIRM pivotal.io Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
Pivotal Spring Security OAuth CVE-2018-15758 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981048 Java (maven) Security Update for org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2 (GHSA-h8w4-qv99-f7vj)
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