Vmware Spring Security up to 6.2.2 AuthenticatedVoter access control

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability categorized as critical has been discovered in Vmware Spring Security up to 5.7.11/5.8.10/6.0.9/6.1.7/6.2.2. Impacted is an unknown function of the component AuthenticatedVoter Handler. Such manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-22257. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Vmware Spring Security up to 5.7.11/5.8.10/6.0.9/6.1.7/6.2.2. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component AuthenticatedVoter Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

In Spring Security, versions 5.7.x prior to 5.7.12, 5.8.x prior to 5.8.11, versions 6.0.x prior to 6.0.9, versions 6.1.x prior to 6.1.8, versions 6.2.x prior to 6.2.3, an application is possible vulnerable to broken access control when it directly uses the AuthenticatedVoter#vote passing a null Authentication parameter.

The advisory is available at spring.io. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-22257 since 01/08/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/12/2024). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 5.7.12, 5.8.11, 6.0.9, 6.1.8 or 6.2.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Vendor

• Vmware

Name

• Spring Security

Version

• 5.7.0
• 5.7.1
• 5.7.2
• 5.7.3
• 5.7.4
• 5.7.5
• 5.7.6
• 5.7.7
• 5.7.8
• 5.7.9
• 5.7.10
• 5.7.11
• 5.8.0
• 5.8.1
• 5.8.2
• 5.8.3
• 5.8.4
• 5.8.5
• 5.8.6
• 5.8.7
• 5.8.8
• 5.8.9
• 5.8.10
• 6.0.0
• 6.0.1
• 6.0.2
• 6.0.3
• 6.0.4
• 6.0.5
• 6.0.6
• 6.0.7
• 6.0.8
• 6.0.9
• 6.1.0
• 6.1.1
• 6.1.2
• 6.1.3
• 6.1.4
• 6.1.5
• 6.1.6
• 6.1.7
• 6.2.0
• 6.2.1
• 6.2.2

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.vmware.com/

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