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CVE-2021-22112

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-22112 is a high-severity vulnerability in Spring Security versions prior to 5.4.4, 5.3.8.RELEASE, and 5.2.9.RELEASE, affecting products from Oracle, Pivotal Software, and VMware. It allows an authenticated attacker to potentially retain elevated privileges across an application if the SecurityContext is modified multiple times within a single request. With a CVSS score of 8.8, this flaw has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring low privileges and no user interaction for exploitation. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 5.2.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:spring_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.3.0, < 5.3.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pivotal_software:spring_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 5.4.0, < 5.4.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.2.0, <= 8.2.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_element_manager:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_interactive_session_recorder:6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0320 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 17,829 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.security:spring-security-bomFixed in: 5.3.8
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.security:spring-security-webFixed in: 5.2.9
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.security:spring-security-bomFixed in: 5.4.4
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.security:spring-security-webFixed in: 5.3.8
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.security:spring-security-bomFixed in: 5.2.9
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.springframework.security:spring-security-webFixed in: 5.4.4
oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-gq28-h5vg-8prxhigh

Privilege escalation in spring security

May 10, 2021
redhatCVE-2021-22112Important

jenkins: Privilege escalation vulnerability in bundled Spring Security library

Feb 19, 2021

References

lists.apache.org / thread.html/r163b3e4e39803882f5be05ee8606b2b9812920e196daa2a82997ce14%40%3Cpluto-dev.portals.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r2cb05e499807900ba23e539643eead9c5f0652fd271f223f89da1804%40%3Cpluto-scm.portals.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r37423ec7eea340e92a409452c35b649dce02fdc467f0b3f52086c177%40%3Cpluto-dev.portals.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r3868207b967f926819fe3aa8d33f1666429be589bb4a62104a49f4e3%40%3Cpluto-dev.portals.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r390783b3b1c59b978131ac08390bf77fbb3863270cbde59d5b0f5fde%40%3Cpluto-dev.portals.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r413e380088c427f56102968df89ef2f336473e1b56b7d4b3a571a378%40%3Cpluto-dev.portals.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r89aa1b48a827f5641310305214547f1d6b2101971a49b624737c497f%40%3Cpluto-dev.portals.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/ra53677224fe4f04c2599abc88032076faa18dc84b329cdeba85d4cfc%40%3Cpluto-scm.portals.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/ra6389b1b82108a3b6bbcd22979f7665fd437c2a3408c9509a15a9ca1%40%3Cpluto-dev.portals.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/redbd004a503b3520ae5746c2ab5e93fd7da807a8c128e60d2002cd9b%40%3Cissues.nifi.apache.org%3E
tanzu.vmware.com / security/cve-2021-22112
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / /security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
Third Party Advisory
oracle.com / security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2021/02/19/7
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory