CVE-2018-15801: spring by pivotal spring security
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2018-15801 is a high (CVSS 7.4) vulnerability in spring by pivotal spring security. EPSS estimates a 0.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50.3% of scored vulnerabilities.
Timeline
- 19-12-2018PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 16-09-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Spring Security versions 5.1.x prior to 5.1.2 contain an authorization bypass vulnerability during JWT issuer validation. In order to be impacted, the same private key for an honest issuer and a malicious user must be used when signing JWTs. In that case, a malicious user could fashion signed JWTs with the malicious issuer URL that may be granted for the honest issuer.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 3 sources · 3 versions- NVDNIST3.3LowCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- OSV · MavenEcosystem advisory · calculated7.4HighCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NDiffers
EPSS trend
Probability
0.65%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
50%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 0.65% on 19-09-2026
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.security2 products
- spring-security-core≥ 5.1.0, < 5.1.2
- spring-security-oauth2-jose≥ 5.1.0, < 5.1.2
Spring by pivotal1 product
- spring security≥ 5.1.x, < 5.1.2
Vmware1 product
- spring_framework≥ 5.1.0, < 5.1.2
3 vendors · 4 products
