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SCA: security update for org.springframework.security:spring-security-core, org.springframework.security:spring-security-web (GHSA-hh32-7344-cg2f)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 415747

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2022-22978)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hh32-7344-cg2f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 415747

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.87

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-22978

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-22978