What is CVE-2024-38810?

CVE-2024-38810 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spring Security, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-08-20.

How severe is CVE-2024-38810?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Spring Security

CVE-2024-38810

Missing Authorization When Using @AuthorizeReturnObject in Spring Security 6.3.0 and 6.3.1 allows attacker to render security annotations inaffective.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

Published 2024-08-20 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.005 (37.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 37th percentile — 37.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Spring Security — versions 6.3.x
VMware Spring Security

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

spring.io/security/cve-2024-38810 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-38810?: CVE-2024-38810 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Spring Security, classified under Improper Authentication. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-08-20.
How severe is CVE-2024-38810?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.