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.
| Vendor | Product | Version(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 version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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