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SCA: security update for org.springframework.security:spring-security-web (GHSA-2jrg-rf5x-568g)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 441017

Description

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

 - Vulnerability in Spring Spring Security. SubjectX500PrincipalExtractor does not correctly handle certain
 malformed X.509 certificate CN values, which can lead to reading the wrong value for the username. In a
 carefully crafted certificate, this can lead to an attacker impersonating another user. This issue affects
 Spring Security: from 7.0.0 through 7.0.4. (CVE-2026-22747)

Solution

Update the org.springframework.security:spring-security-web library and its related packages to version 7.0.5 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2jrg-rf5x-568g

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 441017

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/30/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.64

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-22747

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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: 4/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-22747

cwe: CWE-297