CVE-2018-15801

Summary

CVECVE-2018-15801
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-12-19 22:29:00 UTC
Updated2022-06-03 15:28:00 UTC
DescriptionSpring 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-345

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pivotal Software Spring Framework All All All All
Application Pivotal Software Spring Framework All All All All
Application Vmware Spring Framework All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2018-15801: Authorization Bypass During JWT Issuer Validation with spring-security | Security | VMware Tanzu CONFIRM pivotal.io Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981438 Java (maven) Security Update for org.springframework.security:spring-security-core (GHSA-27xw-p8v6-9jjr)
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