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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD3.3 Low

CVE-2018-15801

Authorization Bypass During JWT Issuer Validation with spring-security

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Spring by Pivotal Spring Security

  • 5.1.x to < 5.1.2affected

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