CVE-2018-15801 in Pivotal Software and VMware Products
Published on December 19, 2018
Authorization Bypass During JWT Issuer Validation with spring-security
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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Affected Versions
Spring by Pivotal Spring Security:- Version 5.1.x and below 5.1.2 is affected.
Exploit Probability
EPSS
0.12%
Percentile
31.78%
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