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Authorization Bypass in RegexRequestMatcher

HIGH | MAY 16, 2022 | CVE-2022-22978

Description

In Spring Security versions 5.4.10, 5.5.6, and 5.6.3 and older unsupported versions, RegexRequestMatcher can easily be misconfigured to be bypassed on some servlet containers.

Applications using RegexRequestMatcher with . in the regular expression are possibly vulnerable to an authorization bypass.

Affected Spring Products and Versions

Spring Security:

  • 5.6.0 - 5.6.3
  • 5.5.0 - 5.5.6
  • 5.4.10 and earlier

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.
Fix versionAvailability
5.6.4OSS
5.5.7OSS
5.4.11OSS

Users should update to a version that includes fixes.

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered and responsibly reported by Hiroki Nishino, Toshiki Sasazaki, Yoshinori Hayashi, and Jonghwan Kim from LINE Corporation.

References

History

  • 2022-05-16: Initial vulnerability report published.

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