Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
CVE-2018-15801
Summary
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.
- HIGH
- NETWORK
- HIGH
- UNCHANGED
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- HIGH
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CWE-345 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
The software does not sufficiently verify the origin or authenticity of data, in a way that causes it to accept invalid data.
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Advisory Timeline
- Published