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CVE-2011-2731

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-2731 describes a race condition in the RunAsManager mechanism within VMware SpringSource Spring Security versions prior to 2.0.7 and 3.0.x prior to 3.0.6. This flaw allows an attacker to gain elevated privileges by manipulating threads due to the Authentication object being stored in a shared security context. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.1, indicating a medium severity with network access, high attack complexity, and partial impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:springsource_spring_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 3.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:springsource_spring_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:springsource_spring_security:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:springsource_spring_security:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:springsource_spring_security:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.1MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.25%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
66.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0125 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.security:spring-security-coreFixed in: 2.0.7
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.security:spring-security-coreFixed in: 3.0.6

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-4644-hg35-55m9medium

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization in Spring Security

May 17, 2022
redhatCVE-2011-2731Moderate

Security: Privilege escalation by using RunAsManager mechanism

Sep 9, 2011

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/55155
support.springsource.com / security/cve-2011-2731
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1029151