CVE-2018-15801

Summary

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Spring by PivotalSpring Security5.1.x < 5.1.2affected

Weaknesses

  • Business Logic Errors

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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