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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2023-20860 json

Spring Framework is vulnerable to security bypass via mvcRequestMatcher pattern mismatch

published 2023-03-27 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-7phw-cxx7-q9vq , EUVD-2023-0927

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.5%
EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Spring Framework running version 6.0.0 - 6.0.6 or 5.3.0 - 5.3.25 using "**" as a pattern in Spring Security configuration with the mvcRequestMatcher creates a mismatch in pattern matching between Spring Security and Spring MVC, and the potential for a security bypass.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework:spring 5.3.26, 6.0.7
  • maven org.springframework:spring-webmvc 5.3.26, 6.0.7
  • vmware spring_framework 5.3.26, 6.0.7
  • jenkins openshift 4.10 2.401.1.1685677065-1.el8
  • jenkins-2-plugins openshift 4.10 4.10.1685679861-1.el8
  • jenkins ocp tools 4.11 2.401.1.1686831596-3.el8
  • jenkins-2-plugins ocp tools 4.11 4.11.1686831822-1.el8
  • jenkins ocp tools 4.13 2.401.1.1686680404-3.el8
  • jenkins-2-plugins ocp tools 4.13 4.13.1686680473-1.el8
  • jenkins ocp tools 4.12 2.401.1.1686649641-3.el8
  • jenkins-2-plugins ocp tools 4.12 4.12.1686649756-1.el8

red hat advisories RHSA-2023:3625RHSA-2023:3663RHSA-2023:3622RHSA-2023:3610RHSA-2023:3771

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-20860 updated cvss 7.5

springframework: Security Bypass With Un-Prefixed Double Wildcard Pattern

  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 springframework springframework
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 springframework springframework, org.osgi.core-eap6 org.osgi.core-eap6, org.osgi.enterprise-eap6 org.osgi.enterprise-eap6 Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 springframework springframework
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 apache-sshd, apache-sshd-javadoc
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.10.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3185
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.11 for RHEL 8 jenkins 2.401.1.1686831596-3.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3663
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.12 jenkins 2.401.1.1686649641-3.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3610
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.13 jenkins 2.401.1.1686680404-3.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3622
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.12
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3954
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  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 jenkins 2.401.1.1685677065-1.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3625
  • Red Hat support for Spring Boot 2.7.13
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:4612
  • Red Hat RHEL-8-RHEV-S-4.4 - Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4 ovirt-dependencies 4.5.3-1.el8ev
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3771
  • Red Hat RHINT Camel-Springboot 3.20.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:2100
  • Red Hat RHPAM 7.13.4 async
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:4983
  • Red Hat A-MQ Clients 2 springframework springframework Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/elasticsearch6-rhel8 Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 6 org.keycloak-keycloak-parent Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Runtimes org.keycloak-keycloak-parent Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.11 for RHEL 8 jenkins-2-plugins 4.11.1686831822-1.el8 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.12 jenkins-2-plugins 4.12.1686649756-1.el8
    +15 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services for OCP 4.13 jenkins-2-plugins 4.13.1686680473-1.el8 Red Hat Data Grid 8 springframework springframework Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 log4j, log4j-jcl, log4j-web, log4j-slf4j Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 log4j, log4j-jcl, log4j-slf4j Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 springframework springframework Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 spring-core Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack springframework springframework Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes springframework springframework Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10 perf 4.18.0-305.93.1.el8_4, kernel 4.18.0-305.93.1.el8_4, bpftool 4.18.0-305.93.1.el8_4, kernel-core 4.18.0-305.93.1.el8_4, kernel-tools 4.18.0-305.93.1.el8_4, python3-perf 4.18.0-305.93.1.el8_4, +47 more Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 springframework springframework Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 8 vdsm 4.50.3.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-hook-fcoe 4.50.3.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-hook-vhostmd 4.50.3.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-hook-checkips 4.50.3.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-hook-cpuflags 4.50.3.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-hook-nestedvt 4.50.3.8-1.el8ev, +4 more Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts vdsm 4.50.3.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-api 4.50.3.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-http 4.50.3.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-client 4.50.3.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-common 4.50.3.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-python 4.50.3.8-1.el8ev, +13 more Red Hat RHEL-8-RHEV-S-4.4 - Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4 rhvm 4.5.3.8-2.el8ev, ovirt-engine 4.5.3.8-2.el8ev, ovirt-engine-setup 4.5.3.8-2.el8ev, ovirt-engine-tools 4.5.3.8-2.el8ev, ovirt-engine-backend 4.5.3.8-2.el8ev, ovirt-engine-restapi 4.5.3.8-2.el8ev, +14 more Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka springframework springframework
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
20 mo ago

Exploit prediction

3.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework:spring
>=6.0.0, <6.0.7
>=5.3.0, <5.3.26
6.0.7
5.3.26
maven org.springframework:spring-webmvc
>=6.0.0, <6.0.7
>=5.3.0, <5.3.26
6.0.7
5.3.26

Affected products

  • n/a Spring Framework

Classification

Technology feeds

References

Sources

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