GHSA-7pm4-g2qj-j85x
CSRF attack via CORS preflight requests with Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2020-5397
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Description
Spring Framework, versions 5.2.x prior to 5.2.3 are vulnerable to CSRF attacks through CORS preflight requests that target Spring MVC (spring-webmvc module) or Spring WebFlux (spring-webflux module) endpoints. Only non-authenticated endpoints are vulnerable because preflight requests should not include credentials and therefore requests should fail authentication. However a notable exception to this are Chrome based browsers when using client certificates for authentication since Chrome sends TLS client certificates in CORS preflight requests in violation of spec requirements. No HTTP body can be sent or received as a result of this attack.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| Maven · org.springframework:spring-webmvc | introduced 5.2.0, fixed 5.2.3 |
| Maven · org.springframework:spring-webflux | introduced 5.2.0, fixed 5.2.3 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5397 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/bc7d01048579430b4b2df668178809b63d3f1929 WEB
- https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework PACKAGE
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2020-5397 WEB
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html WEB
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html WEB
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html WEB
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html WEB
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html WEB
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |