Spring Security's spring-security.xsd file is world writable

2024-02-0600:30:25

CWE-732

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github.com

spring security

spring-security.xsd

world-writable

incorrect permission assignment

critical resource

exploit

update

latest version

7.1 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.2%

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The spring-security.xsd file inside the spring-security-config jar is world writable which means that if it were extracted it could be written by anyone with access to the file system.

While there are no known exploits, this is an example of “CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource” and could result in an exploit. Users should update to the latest version of Spring Security to mitigate any future exploits found around this issue.

CPENameOperatorVersion
org.springframework.security:spring-security-configle5.7.10
org.springframework.security:spring-security-configle5.8.6
org.springframework.security:spring-security-configle6.0.6
org.springframework.security:spring-security-configle6.1.3

Name	Operator	Version
org.springframework.security:spring-security-config	le	5.7.10
org.springframework.security:spring-security-config	le	5.8.6
org.springframework.security:spring-security-config	le	6.0.6
org.springframework.security:spring-security-config	le	6.1.3