CVE-2024-38821

About vulnerability

Spring WebFlux applications that have Spring Security authorization rules on static resources can be bypassed under certain circumstances.

For this to impact an application, all of the following must be true:

• It must be a WebFlux application
• It must be using Spring’s static resources support
• It must have a non-permitAll authorization rule applied to the static resources support

Affected product:

Spring , cxf

Affected packages:

spring-boot-starter-web-services @ 2.7.18 (+567 more)

Spring WebFlux applications that have Spring Security authorization rules on static resources can be bypassed under certain circumstances.

For this to impact an application, all of the following must be true:

• It must be a WebFlux application
• It must be using Spring’s static resources support
• It must have a non-permitAll authorization rule applied to the static resources support