What is CVE-2014-3527?

CVE-2014-3527 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Pivotal Spring Security, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-05-25.

How severe is CVE-2014-3527?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Pivotal Spring Security

CVE-2014-3527

When using the CAS Proxy ticket authentication from Spring Security 3.1 to 3.2.4 a malicious CAS Service could trick another CAS Service into authenticating a proxy ticket that was not associated. This is due to the fact that the proxy tic…

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

EPSS: 0.004 (58.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Pivotal Spring Security — versions 3.1 to 3.2.4
Vmware Spring_security — versions 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-287 — Improper Authentication

References

security_alert@emc.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-3527?: CVE-2014-3527 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Pivotal Spring Security, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-05-25.
How severe is CVE-2014-3527?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.