CVE-2018-15758
Privilege Escalation in spring-security-oauth2
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- dell
Description
Spring Security OAuth, versions 2.3 prior to 2.3.4, and 2.2 prior to 2.2.3, and 2.1 prior to 2.1.3, and 2.0 prior to 2.0.16, and older unsupported versions could be susceptible to a privilege escalation under certain conditions. A malicious user or attacker can craft a request to the approval endpoint that can modify the previously saved authorization request and lead to a privilege escalation on the subsequent approval. This scenario can happen if the application is configured to use a custom approval endpoint that declares AuthorizationRequest as a controller method argument. This vulnerability exposes applications that meet all of the following requirements: Act in the role of an Authorization Server (e.g. @EnableAuthorizationServer) and use a custom Approval Endpoint that declares AuthorizationRequest as a controller method argument. This vulnerability does not expose applications that: Act in the role of an Authorization Server and use the default Approval Endpoint, act in the role of a Resource Server only (e.g. @EnableResourceServer), act in the role of a Client only (e.g. @EnableOAuthClient).
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| dellCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Critical9.6 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High8.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 18% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.6.
Weakness
- Improper Privilege Management
Affected products
Pivotal · Spring Security OAuth
- affected 2.3 – ≤ 2.3.3
- affected 2.2 – ≤ 2.2.2
- affected 2.1 – ≤ 2.1.2
- affected 2.0 – ≤ 2.0.15
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2GHSA-h8w4-qv99-f7vj (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-15758 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 105687 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:2413 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-h8w4-qv99-f7vj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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