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Advisory details: github_osv / GHSA-27xw-p8v6-9jjr
Advisory ID github_osv/GHSA-27xw-p8v6-9jjr
Aliases CVE-2018-15801
Summary Spring Security vulnerable to Authorization Bypass 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.7
Risk 3.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (1)
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N Found at https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2018/12/GHSA-27xw-p8v6-9jjr/GHSA-27xw-p8v6-9jjr.json
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