Security Bypass in Spring Boot Affecting Cloud Foundry Deployments
CVE-2023-20873

9.8CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor

Vmware
Status
Spring Boot
Vendor
CVE Published:
20 April 2023

What is CVE-2023-20873?

In specific versions of Spring Boot, applications deployed to Cloud Foundry may encounter a vulnerability that allows security bypassing. This issue affects Spring Boot versions up to 3.0.5 and 2.7.10 as well as older unsupported releases, posing significant risks to application integrity. To mitigate this vulnerability, users are advised to upgrade to Spring Boot 3.0.6 or higher for 3.0.x versions, and to 2.7.11 or higher for 2.7.x versions.

Affected Version(s)

Spring Boot Spring Boot versions 3.0.0 - 3.0.5, 2.7.0 - 2.7.10, and older unsupported versions

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2023-20873
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230601-0009/
https://spring.io/blog/2023/05/18/spring-boot-2-5-15-and-...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.8
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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CVE-2023-20873 : Security Bypass in Spring Boot Affecting Cloud Foundry Deployments