A vulnerability classified as critical was found in VMware SpringSource Spring Security up to 2.0.2. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument spring-security-redirect with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

CRLF injection vulnerability in the logout functionality in VMware SpringSource Spring Security before 2.0.7 and 3.0.x before 3.0.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTTP headers and conduct HTTP response splitting attacks via the spring-security-redirect parameter.

The weakness was presented 12/05/2012 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at support.springsource.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2011-2732 since 07/11/2011. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 2.0.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

See 63162 for similar entry.

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• SpringSource Spring Security

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• 2.0.0
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