Spring Security Identity Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (CVS 2023-34034)

Spring Security Identity Authentication Bypass Vulnerability (CVS 2023-34034)

julho 25, 2023 | NSFOCUS

Overview

Recently, NSFOCUS CERT monitored Spring’s official security announcement and disclosed an identity bypass vulnerability in Spring Security. Using ‘**’ as the pattern in the Spring Security configuration of WebFlux can cause a pattern mismatch between Spring Security and Spring WebFlux, and may result in identity authentication bypass. CVSS score is 9.1. Affected users should take protective measure as soon as possible.

Vulnerability status:

Vulnerability DetailsVulnerability PoC Vulnerability EXP Utilization in the wilderness
UnpublishedUnpublishedUnpublishedNot found

Reference link:

https://spring.io/security/cve-2023-34034

Scope of Impact

Affected version

  • 6.1.0<=Spring Security<=6.1.1
  • 6.0.0<=Spring Security<=6.0.4
  • 5.8.0<=Spring Security<=5.8.4
  • 5.7.0<=Spring Security<=5.7.9
  • 5.6.0<=Spring Security<=5.6.11

Unaffected version

  • Spring Security>=6.1.2
  • Spring Security>=6.0.5
  • Spring Security>=5.8.5
  • Spring Security>=5.7.10
  • Spring Security>=5.6.12

Note: The above requirements for the Spring Framework version are

  • Spring Framework>=6.0.11
  • Spring Framework>=5.3.29
  • Spring Framework>=5.2.25

Mitigation

Currently, the official security version has been released to fix this vulnerability. It is recommended that affected users upgrade their protection in a timely manner:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/releases

Statement

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