CVE-2018-15758

Privilege Escalation in spring-security-oauth2

State
Published
Severity
9.6 Critical
Published
Oct 18, 2018
Updated
Sep 17, 2024
Reserved
Aug 23, 2018

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Description

Spring Security OAuth, versions 2.3 prior to 2.3.4, and 2.2 prior to 2.2.3, and 2.1 prior to 2.1.3, and 2.0 prior to 2.0.16, and older unsupported versions could be susceptible to a privilege escalation under certain conditions. A malicious user or attacker can craft a request to the approval endpoint that can modify the previously saved authorization request and lead to a privilege escalation on the subsequent approval. This scenario can happen if the application is configured to use a custom approval endpoint that declares AuthorizationRequest as a controller method argument. This vulnerability exposes applications that meet all of the following requirements: Act in the role of an Authorization Server (e.g. @EnableAuthorizationServer) and use a custom Approval Endpoint that declares AuthorizationRequest as a controller method argument. This vulnerability does not expose applications that: Act in the role of an Authorization Server and use the default Approval Endpoint, act in the role of a Resource Server only (e.g. @EnableResourceServer), act in the role of a Client only (e.g. @EnableOAuthClient).

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.09.6 CriticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Ndell

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Spring Security OAuthPivotal
  • 2.3 through 2.3.3Affected
  • 2.2 through 2.2.2Affected
  • 2.1 through 2.1.2Affected
  • 2.0 through 2.0.15Affected

References

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