CVE-2018-15801
Spring Security vulnerable to Authorization Bypass
7.4
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.12%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2018-15801
To remediate CVE-2018-15801, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 5.1.2 or later
- —upgrade to 5.1.2 or later
Is CVE-2018-15801 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- >= 5.1.0, < 5.1.2
- >= 5.1.0, < 5.1.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.4 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |