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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/org.springframework/spring-webmvc/CVE-2023-20860
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/org.springframework/spring-webmvc/CVE-2023-20860
Aliases CVE-2023-20860
GHSA-7phw-cxx7-q9vq
Summary Spring Framework is vulnerable to security bypass via mvcRequestMatcher pattern mismatch Spring Framework running version 6.0.0 - 6.0.6 or 5.3.0 - 5.3.25 using "**" as a pattern in Spring Security configuration with the mvcRequestMatcher creates a mismatch in pattern matching between Spring Security and Spring MVC, and the potential for a security bypass.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.springframework/spring-webmvc/CVE-2023-20860.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/202fa5cdb3a3d0cfe6967e85fa167d978244f28a
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230505-0006
CVE-2023-20860 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-20860
CVE-2023-20860 https://spring.io/security/cve-2023-20860
GHSA-7phw-cxx7-q9vq https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7phw-cxx7-q9vq
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.springframework/spring-webmvc/CVE-2023-20860.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

high

none

low

high

none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

high

low

none

high

low

none

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-02-19T19:05:19Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2023/20xxx/CVE-2023-20860.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2023-20860

View SSVC decision tree 
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 {'Automatable': 'yes'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]