CVE-2014-3527: pivotal spring security Improper Authentication
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2014-3527 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Improper Authentication vulnerability in pivotal spring security. EPSS estimates a 1.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78.4% of scored vulnerabilities.
Timeline
- 25-05-2017PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
When using the CAS Proxy ticket authentication from Spring Security 3.1 to 3.2.4 a malicious CAS Service could trick another CAS Service into authenticating a proxy ticket that was not associated. This is due to the fact that the proxy ticket authentication uses the information from the HttpServletRequest which is populated based upon untrusted information within the HTTP request. This means if there are access control restrictions on which CAS services can authenticate to one another, those restrictions can be bypassed. If users are not using CAS Proxy tickets and not basing access control decisions based upon the CAS Service, then there is no impact to users.
CVSS metrics
3 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions- OSV · MavenEcosystem advisory · calculated9.8CriticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
1.82%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
78%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 1.82% on 18-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Org.springframework.security1 product
- spring-security-core< 3.1.7 | ≥ 3.2.0, < 3.2.5
Pivotal1 product
- spring security3.1 to 3.2.4
Vmware1 product
- spring_security3.1.0 | 3.1.1 | 3.1.2 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.4 | 3.2.0 | 3.2.1 | 3.2.2 | 3.2.3 | 3.2.4
3 vendors · 3 products
