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CVE-2024-38807: Signature Forgery Vulnerability in Spring Boot's Loader

MEDIUM | AUGUST 23, 2024 | CVE-2024-38807

Description

Applications that use spring-boot-loader or spring-boot-loader-classic and contain custom code that performs signature verification of nested jar files may be vulnerable to signature forgery where content that appears to have been signed by one signer has, in fact, been signed by another.

Affected Spring Products and Versions

Spring Boot

  • 2.7.0 - 2.7.21
  • 3.0.0 - 3.0.16
  • 3.1.0 - 3.1.12
  • 3.2.0 - 3.2.8
  • 3.3.0 - 3.3.2

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.
Affected version(s)Fix versionAvailability
2.7.x2.7.22Enterprise Support Only
3.0.x3.0.17Enterprise Support Only
3.1.x3.1.13Enterprise Support Only
3.2.x3.2.9OSS
3.3.x3.3.3OSS

Credit

The issue was identified and responsibly reported by Yufan You.

References

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