CVE-2022-22978

In spring security versions prior to 5.4.11+, 5.5.7+ , 5.6.4+ 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.

Published: May 19, 2022
Updated: Apr 14, 2023
CVE: CVE-2022-22978
GHSA: GHSA-hh32-7344-cg2f
Severity: Critical
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Critical
Score: 9.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

Severity: High
Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

OWASP TOP 10:

A5 - Broken Access Control

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
vmware / spring_security	5.6.0	5.6.4
vmware / spring_security	-	5.5.7
oracle / financial_services_crime_and_compliance_management_studio	8.0.8.2.0	8.0.8.2.0.x
oracle / financial_services_crime_and_compliance_management_studio	8.0.8.3.0	8.0.8.3.0.x
org.springframework.security / spring-security-core	-	5.5.7
org.springframework.security / spring-security-core	5.6.0	5.6.4

Vulnerability Database

289,599

CVE-2022-22978