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Red Hat JBossEAP: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CVE-2023-34042)

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Red Hat JBossEAP: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CVE-2023-34042)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
02/05/2024
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
09/20/2024

Description

The spring-security.xsd file inside the spring-security-config jar is world writable which means that if it were extracted it could be written by anyone with access to the file system. While there are no known exploits, this is an example of “CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource” and could result in an exploit. Users should update to the latest version of Spring Security to mitigate any future exploits found around this issue.. A flaw was found in the Spring-security-config jar file. The spring-security.xsd file inside the spring-security-config jar is world-writable, which means that if it were extracted, it could be written by anyone with access to the file system.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

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