CVE-2024-38827

Spring Security Authorization Bypass for Case Sensitive Comparisons

State: Published
Severity: 4.8 Medium
Published: Dec 2, 2024
Updated: Jan 24, 2025
Reserved: Jun 19, 2024

Description

The usage of String.toLowerCase() and String.toUpperCase() has some Locale dependent exceptions that could potentially result in authorization rules not working properly.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.8 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-639

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Spring SecuritySpring by VMware Tanzu	5.7.0 - 5.7.13, 5.8.0 - 5.8.15, 6.0.0 - 6.0.13, 6.1.0 - 6.1.11, 6.2.0 - 6.2.7, 6.3.0 - 6.3.4, Older unsupported versions are also affectedAffected

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-38827
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250124-0007/

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