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CVE-2023-34035

Status: ModifiedMedium (5.3)—

Spring Security versions 5.8 prior to 5.8.5, 6.0 prior to 6.0.5, and 6.1 prior to 6.1.2 could be susceptible to authorization rule misconfiguration if the application uses requestMatchers(String) and multiple servlets, one of them being Spring MVC’s DispatcherServlet. (DispatcherServlet is a Spring MVC component that maps HTTP endpoints to methods on @Controller-annotated classes.)

Specifically, an application is vulnerable when all of the following are true:

An application is not vulnerable if any of the following is true:

Technical details traces, logs and code from the original report
  *  Spring MVC is on the classpath
  *  Spring Security is securing more than one servlet in a single application (one of them being Spring MVC’s DispatcherServlet)
  *  The application uses requestMatchers(String) to refer to endpoints that are not Spring MVC endpoints

  *  The application does not have Spring MVC on the classpath
  *  The application secures no servlets other than Spring MVC’s DispatcherServlet
  *  The application uses requestMatchers(String) only for Spring MVC endpoints

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Vmware — Spring Security

CWEs

References

Raw JSON (NVD)

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