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GHSA-wmv4-5w76-vp9g

GitHub Security Advisory

Authorization Bypass in Spring Security

✓ GitHub Reviewed CRITICAL Has CVE

Advisory Details

When using Spring Security's CAS Proxy ticket authentication a malicious CAS Service could trick another CAS Service into authenticating a proxy ticket that was not associated. This is due to the fact that the proxy ticket authentication uses the information from the HttpServletRequest which is populated based upon untrusted information within the HTTP request.

This means if there are access control restrictions on which CAS services can authenticate to one another, those restrictions can be bypassed.

If users are not using CAS Proxy tickets and not basing access control decisions based upon the CAS Service, then there is no impact to users.

## Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:
- Users of 3.2x should upgrade to 3.2.5 or later
- Users of 3.1.x should upgrade to 3.1.7 or later

## Credit
This issue was identified by David Ohsie and brought to our attention by the CAS Development team.

Affected Packages

Maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-core
Affected versions: 0 (fixed in 3.1.7)
Maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-core
Affected versions: 3.2.0 (fixed in 3.2.5)

Related CVEs

Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-wmv4-5w76-vp9g
Published
September 15, 2020 8:16 PM
Last Modified
April 16, 2024 4:11 PM
CVSS Score
9.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Maven
Primary Package
org.springframework.security:spring-security-core
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: September 7, 2025 6:30 AM

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