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Improper Access Control Affecting org.springframework:spring-webmvc package, versions [5.3.0,5.3.26) [6.0.0,6.0.7)

0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.09% (36th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGSPRINGFRAMEWORK-3369852
  • published 23 Mar 2023
  • disclosed 23 Mar 2023
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 23 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-20860 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-284 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade org.springframework:spring-webmvc to version 5.3.26, 6.0.7 or higher.

Overview

org.springframework:spring-webmvc is a package that provides Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture and ready components that can be used to develop flexible and loosely coupled web applications.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control when using an un-prefixed double wildcard pattern ("**") in the Spring Security configuration with the mvcRequestMatcher. This configuration creates a pattern-matching discrepancy between Spring Security and Spring MVC, potentially allowing unauthorized access.

Note: The Spring security team have published information about an existing PoC, but have not shared the PoC itself publicly, therefore we don't currently have the ability to verify it.