GHSA-xxgp-pcfc-3vgc
GitHub Security Advisory
Privilege Escalation in Hibernate Validator
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HIGH
Has CVE
Advisory Details
In Hibernate Validator 5.2.x before 5.2.5.Final, 5.3.x before 5.3.6.Final, and 5.4.x before 5.4.2.Final, it was found that when the security manager's reflective permissions, which allows it to access the private members of the class, are granted to Hibernate Validator, a potential privilege escalation can occur. By allowing the calling code to access those private members without the permission an attacker may be able to validate an invalid instance and access the private member value via ConstraintViolation#getInvalidValue().
Affected Packages
Maven
org.hibernate:hibernate-validator
Affected versions:
5.2.0
(fixed in 5.2.5.Final)
Maven
org.hibernate:hibernate-validator
Affected versions:
5.3.0
(fixed in 5.3.6.Final)
Maven
org.hibernate:hibernate-validator
Affected versions:
5.4.0
(fixed in 5.4.2.Final)
Related CVEs
Key Information
7.5
/10
Dataset
Last updated: November 26, 2025 6:30 AM
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