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. Applications using RegexRequestMatcher with . in the regular expression are possibly vulnerable to an authorization bypass.
{
"cna_assigner": "vmware",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/22xxx/CVE-2022-22978.json",
"unresolved_ranges": [
{
"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
"extracted_events": [
{
"last_affected": "Spring security versions 5.4.x prior to 5.4.11+,5.5.x prior to 5.5.7+,5.6.x prior to 5.6.4+ and all earlier unsupported versions"
}
]
}
],
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-863"
]
}{
"source": "CPE_FIELD",
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "5.5.7"
},
{
"introduced": "5.6.0"
},
{
"fixed": "5.6.4"
}
]
}