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CVE

CVE-2022-22978

Authorization bypass in Spring Security

Description

In Spring Security versions 5.5.6 and 5.5.7 and older unsupported versions, RegexRequestMatcher can easily be misconfigured to be bypassed on some servlet containers. Applications using RegexRequestMatcher with . in the regular expression are possibly vulnerable to an authorization bypass.

Base CVSS

9.8

EPSS Score

90.72%

Introduced Version

3.2.0.RELEASE

Fix Available

5.6.4,5.4.11,5.5.7

Fix without Upgrading

Available Patches

Package

CVEs Fixed

Lines of Code Changed

org.springframework.security:spring-security-web

org.springframework.security:spring-security-web

org.springframework.security:spring-security-crypto

org.springframework.security:spring-security-web

org.springframework.security:spring-security-web

org.springframework.security:spring-security-web

References

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/blob/main/web/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/web/util/matcher/RegexRequestMatcher.java

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-22978

https://spring.io/security/cve-2022-22978

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220707-0003

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

https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2022-22978

https://github.com/anchore/grype/issues/2158

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

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