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SCA: security update for org.springframework.security:spring-security-core (GHSA-wx54-3278-m5g4)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 420170

Description

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

 - 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. When using the BCrypt class with the maximum work factor (31),
 the encoder does not perform any salt rounds, due to an integer overflow error. The default settings are
 not affected by this CVE. (CVE-2022-22976)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wx54-3278-m5g4

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 420170

Version: Revision 1.15

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: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-22976

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/20/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-22976

cwe: CWE-190