CVE-2018-15801 — Authorization Bypass During JWT Issuer Validation with spring-security
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 ho…
Published: 2018-12-19 · CVSS: 3.3 · CVSS 3.0
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7