Spring Security vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product258 versions
The short answer

Spring Security is made by VMware. We track 22 published vulnerabilities in it, across 258 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Spring Security, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

Which Spring Security vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Spring Security's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Spring Security flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

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  1. 12%

    In spring security versions prior to 5.4.11+, 5.5.7+ , 5.6.4+ and older unsupported versions, RegexRequestMatcher can easily be misconfigured to be bypassed on some servlet containers.

    CVSS9.8Published19 May 2022
  2. 8.6%

    Spring Framework 3.0.0 through 3.0.5, Spring Security 3.0.0 through 3.0.5 and 2.0.0 through 2.0.6, and possibly other versions deserialize objects from untrusted sources, which allows remote attackers to bypass...

    CVSS6.8Published4 Oct 2011
  3. 6.0%

    Spring Security versions 5.5.x prior to 5.5.1, 5.4.x prior to 5.4.7, 5.3.x prior to 5.3.10 and 5.2.x prior to 5.2.11 are susceptible to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack via the initiation of the Authorization Request...

    CVSS7.5Published29 Jun 2021
  4. 4.0%

    Using "**" as a pattern in Spring Security configuration for WebFlux creates a mismatch in pattern matching between Spring Security and Spring WebFlux, and the potential for a security bypass.

    CVSS9.8Published19 Jul 2023
  5. 3.4%

    Spring Security, versions 5.7 prior to 5.7.5 and 5.6 prior to 5.6.9 could be susceptible to authorization rules bypass via forward or include dispatcher types.

    CVSS9.8Published31 Oct 2022
  6. 3.3%

    Spring Security 5.4.x prior to 5.4.4, 5.3.x prior to 5.3.8.RELEASE, 5.2.x prior to 5.2.9.RELEASE, and older unsupported versions can fail to save the SecurityContext if it is changed more than once in a single...

    CVSS8.8Published23 Feb 2021
  7. 2.9%

    Spring Security (Spring Security 4.1.x before 4.1.5, 4.2.x before 4.2.4, and 5.0.x before 5.0.1; and Spring Framework 4.3.x before 4.3.14 and 5.0.x before 5.0.3) does not consider URL path parameters when processing...

    CVSS5.3Published16 Mar 2018
  8. 2.9%

    Both Spring Security 3.2.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.0 and the Spring Framework 3.2.x, 4.0.x, 4.1.x, 4.2.x rely on URL pattern mappings for authorization and for mapping requests to controllers respectively.

    CVSS7.5Published25 May 2017
  9. 2.5%

    An issue was discovered in Pivotal Spring Security 4.2.0.RELEASE through 4.2.2.RELEASE, and Spring Security 5.0.0.M1.

    CVSS8.1Published27 Nov 2017
  10. 2.3%

    Spring Security versions 5.5.x prior to 5.5.7, 5.6.x prior to 5.6.4, and earlier unsupported versions contain an integer overflow vulnerability.

    CVSS5.3Published19 May 2022
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We track 22 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Spring Security, across 258 versions.

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