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Jenkins Advisory 2021-02-19: CVE-2021-22112: Privilege escalation vulnerability in bundled Spring Security library

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Jenkins Advisory 2021-02-19: CVE-2021-22112: Privilege escalation vulnerability in bundled Spring Security library

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/23/2021
Created
12/08/2021
Added
12/02/2021
Modified
07/12/2022

Description

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 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.

Solution(s)

  • jenkins-upgrade-2_280

References

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