Vmware Spring Security up to 5.8.4/6.0.4/6.1.1 Authorization Rule improper authorization

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A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in Vmware Spring Security up to 5.8.4/6.0.4/6.1.1. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Authorization Rule Handler. The manipulation leads to improper authorization. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2023-34035. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Vmware Spring Security up to 5.8.4/6.0.4/6.1.1. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Authorization Rule Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-285. The product does not perform or incorrectly performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Spring Security versions 5.8 prior to 5.8.5, 6.0 prior to 6.0.5, and 6.1 prior to 6.1.2 could be susceptible to authorization rule misconfiguration if the application uses requestMatchers(String) and multiple servlets, one of them being Spring MVC’s DispatcherServlet. (DispatcherServlet is a Spring MVC component that maps HTTP endpoints to methods on @Controller-annotated classes.) Specifically, an application is vulnerable when all of the following are true: * Spring MVC is on the classpath * Spring Security is securing more than one servlet in a single application (one of them being Spring MVC’s DispatcherServlet) * The application uses requestMatchers(String) to refer to endpoints that are not Spring MVC endpoints An application is not vulnerable if any of the following is true: * The application does not have Spring MVC on the classpath * The application secures no servlets other than Spring MVC’s DispatcherServlet * The application uses requestMatchers(String) only for Spring MVC endpoints

The weakness was published 07/18/2023. The advisory is shared at spring.io. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-34035 since 05/25/2023. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/18/2023). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1548.002 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 5.8.5, 6.0.5 or 6.1.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Vmware

Name

• Spring Security

Version

• 5.8.0
• 5.8.1
• 5.8.2
• 5.8.3
• 5.8.4
• 6.0.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 6.0.3
• 6.0.4
• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.vmware.com/

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