CVE-2023-34042

State: Published
Severity: 4.1 Medium
Published: Feb 5, 2024
Updated: Jun 3, 2025
Reserved: May 25, 2023

Description

The spring-security.xsd file inside the spring-security-config jar is world writable which means that if it were extracted it could be written by anyone with access to the file system.

While there are no known exploits, this is an example of “CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource” and could result in an exploit. Users should update to the latest version of Spring Security to mitigate any future exploits found around this issue.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.1 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Spring SecurityN/A	Spring Security 6.1.x prior to 6.1.4, Spring Security 6.0.x prior to 6.0.7, Spring Security 5.8.x prior to 5.8.7, Spring Security 5.7.x prior to 5.7.11Affected

References

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