Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-22112

High

Published: 23 February 2021

Published
23 February 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0098 77.2th percentile
Risk Priority 18 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-22112 is a high-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Pivotal Software Spring Security. Its CVSS base score is 8.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 22.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Spring Security 5.4.x prior to 5.4.4, 5.3.x prior to 5.3.8.RELEASE, 5.2.x prior to 5.2.9.RELEASE, and older unsupported versions can fail to save the SecurityContext if it is changed more than once in a single request.A malicious user cannot cause the…

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bug to happen (it must be programmed in). However, if the application's intent is to only allow the user to run with elevated privileges in a small portion of the application, the bug can be leveraged to extend those privileges to the rest of the application.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

pivotal software
spring security
≤ 5.2.9 · 5.3.0 — 5.3.8
vmware
spring security
5.4.0 — 5.4.4
oracle
communications element manager
8.2.0 — 8.2.4.0
oracle
communications interactive session recorder
6.3, 6.4
oracle
communications unified inventory management
7.4.1
oracle
hospitality cruise shipboard property management system
20.1.0
oracle
insurance policy administration
11.2.0, 11.3.0
oracle
mysql enterprise monitor
≤ 8.0.25

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References