CVE-2018-1256: Issuer validation regression in Spring Cloud SSO Connector
Description
Spring Cloud SSO Connector, version 2.1.2, contains a regression which disables issuer validation in resource servers that are not bound to the SSO service. In PCF deployments with multiple SSO service plans, a remote attacker can authenticate to unbound resource servers which use this version of the SSO Connector with tokens generated from another service plan.
Affected Spring Products and Versions
- Spring Cloud SSO Connector version 2.1.2
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
- Releases that have fixed this issue include:</p><ul><li>Spring Cloud SSO Connector: 2.1.3</li></ul>
- Alternatively, you can perform <u>one</u> of the following workarounds:</p><ul><li>Bind your resource server to the SSO service plan via a service instance binding</li><li>Set “sso.connector.cloud.available=true” within your Spring application properties</li></ul>
Credit
This vulnerability was responsibly reported by the Pivotal SSO Service team.
History
2018-04-30: Initial vulnerability report published