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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2026-59276 json

Timing Attack via Non-Constant-Time Comparison of Sensitive Values

published 2026-08-27 2 mo ago modified 2026-09-02 2 mo ago also EUVD-2026-67168

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 26%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Several components in Spring Security compare security-sensitive values using standard string equality (String.equals()) rather than a constant-time comparison. Because String.equals() returns as soon as it finds a differing character, the time taken to reject an incorrect value is proportional to the number of leading characters that match the expected value. Spring Security 7.1.0 Spring Security 7.0.0 - 7.0.6 Spring Security 6.5.0 - 6.5.11 Spring Security 6.4.0 - 6.4.18 Spring Security 5.8.0 - 5.8.27 Spring Security 5.7.0 - 5.7.25

Patch / fix

  • vmware spring_security 5.7.26, 5.8.28, 6.4.19, 6.5.12, 7.0.6.1, 7.1.0.1

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-2026-59276 updated cvss 5.9

org.springframework.security/spring-security-core: Spring Security: Information disclosure via timing attack in sensitive value comparison

  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8, ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9, jenkins 2.516.3.1758206866-3.el9 Red Hat Fuse 7 spring-security-core 5.1.5.RELEASE
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/openvsx-rhel9, devspaces/pluginregistry-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 spring-security-core 5.1.5.RELEASE
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Spring Spring Security

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-208 Observable Timing Discrepancy
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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