Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-38829

Low

Published: 04 December 2024

Published
04 December 2024
Modified
15 April 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0013 32.4th percentile
Risk Priority 7 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-38829 is a low-severity Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity (CWE-178) vulnerability in Spring LDAP (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 3.7 (Low).

Operationally, ranked at the 32.4th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability in Spring LDAP allows data exposure for case sensitive comparisons.This issue affects Spring LDAP: from 2.4.0 through 2.4.3, from 3.0.0 through 3.0.9, from 3.1.0 through 3.1.7, from 3.2.0 through 3.2.7, AND all versions prior to 2.4.0. The usage…

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of String.toLowerCase() and String.toUpperCase() has some Locale dependent exceptions that could potentially result in unintended columns from being queried Related to CVE-2024-38820 https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-38820

CWE(s)
CWE-178

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

Spring
LDAP
inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

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

References