Privilege escalation in Spring Security OAuth - CVE-2018-15758

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Privilege escalation in Spring Security OAuth - CVE-2018-15758

Published: October 22, 2018 / Updated: October 23, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU15466
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 9.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-15758
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The vulnerability exists in the OAuth2 component of Pivotal Software Spring Security OAuth due to improper security restrictions. A remote unauthenticated attacker can send a specially crafted request and modify a previously saved authorization request to gain elevated privileges.


Affected software

Spring Security OAuth
Fuse
CloudLink

How to mitigate CVE-2018-15758

The vulnerability has been addressed in the versions 2.0.16, 2.1.3, 2.2.3, 2.3.4.

Spring Security OAuth - addressed in versions 2.0.16, 2.1.3, 2.2.3, 2.3.4
Fuse - update to 7.4.0
CloudLink - update to 8.0-3.10.5.1

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