Vulnerability in Spring By Pivotal Security
CVE-2018-15801
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.
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CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.4 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.007 (49.4th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 49th percentile — 49.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Spring By Pivotal Security — versions 5.1.x
- VMware Spring Framework
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-15801 (Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2018-15801?
- CVE-2018-15801 is a high-severity vulnerability in Spring By Pivotal Security, classified under Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity. CVSS score: 7.4/10. Published 2018-12-19.
- How severe is CVE-2018-15801?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.4 out of 10.