CVE-2011-2731

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2011-09-09
Bugzilla:
737613: CVE-2011-2731 Spring Security: Privilege escalation by using RunAsManager mechanism

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Race condition in the RunAsManager mechanism in VMware SpringSource Spring Security before 2.0.7 and 3.0.x before 3.0.6 stores the Authentication object in the shared security context, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted thread.

Find out more about CVE-2011-2731 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue affects the Spring Security package, which is not shipped with any Red Hat products.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact None

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 unspecified Not affected

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