CVE-2024-22234
Description
A vulnerability was found in Spring Security. This issue may lead to Broken Access Control, allowing a malicious user to impact the Confidentiality and Integrity of an application or server. This requires the application to use AuthenticationTrustResolver.isFullyAuthenticated(Authentication) directly and have a null authentication parameter passed to it, resulting in an erroneous true return value.
Statement
Red Hat considers this as a Moderate impact since it requires the malicious user to have knowledge of how a server implements the authentication resolver from Spring Security. A validation is also suggested to make sure there are no null parameters and no erroneous true is triggered from this method.
An application is not vulnerable if any of the following are true:
- The application does not use AuthenticationTrustResolver.isFullyAuthenticated(Authentication) directly
- The application does not pass null to AuthenticationTrustResolver.isFullyAuthenticated
- The application only uses isFullyAuthenticated via Method Security or HTTP Request Security
Mitigation
Make sure the application is not vulnerable according to the description bullet points mentioned in this page.
Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details
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CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authority (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications).
CVSS v3 Score Breakdown
| Red Hat | NVD | cve.org | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base Score | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| Attack Vector | Network | Network | Network |
| Attack Complexity | High | High | High |
| Privileges Required | None | None | None |
| User Interaction | None | None | None |
| Scope | Unchanged | Unchanged | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | High | High | High |
| Integrity Impact | High | High | High |
| Availability Impact | None | None | None |
Vector
Red Hat: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
cve.org: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Other
Technical Impact: Varies by Context
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