SCA: security update for org.springframework.security:spring-security-core, org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-jose (GHSA-27xw-p8v6-9jjr)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422004

Description

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

- Spring Security versions 5.1.x prior to 5.1.2 contain an authorization bypass vulnerability during JWT
issuer validation. In order to be impacted, the same private key for an honest issuer and a malicious user
must be used when signing JWTs. In that case, a malicious user could fashion signed JWTs with the
malicious issuer URL that may be granted for the honest issuer. (CVE-2018-15801)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422004

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-15801

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.4

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 12/20/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/18/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-15801

cwe: CWE-345

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