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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2022-31679

Low
3.7/10

Summary

Applications that allow HTTP PATCH access to resources exposed by Spring Data REST in versions prior to 3.6.7 and 3.7.x prior to 3.7.3, if an attacker knows about the structure of the underlying domain model, they can craft HTTP requests that expose hidden entity attributes.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published