Spring Security: Vulnerability in Spring Spring Security.
Summary
Vulnerability in Spring Spring Security. SubjectX500PrincipalExtractor does not correctly handle certain malformed X.509 certificate CN values, which can lead to reading the wrong value for the username. In a carefully crafted certificate, this can lead to an attacker impersonating another user. This issue affects Spring Security: from 7.0.0 through 7.0.4.
- 7.0.0
- 7.0.4
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 11 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation
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Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 11 hours ago·verify at source
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