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Medium · 4.8 CVE-2024-38827 EUVD-2024-3496GHSA-q3v6-hm2v-pw99

Spring Security Authorization Bypass for Case Sensitive Comparisons

Published Dec 2, 2024 · Updated Jan 24, 2025 · Assigned by vmware

Description

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Spring by VMware Tanzu Spring Security 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 affected —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling thingsboard 3.8.1-r4 —

Affected packages

Advisories 12

References