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CVE-2026-22747

8.1 high exploit ×2 SSVC exploitation: none Modified

Vulnerability in Spring Spring Security. SubjectX500PrincipalExtractor does not correctly handle certain malformed X.509 certificate CN values, which can lead to reading the wrong value for the username. In a carefully crafted certificate, this can lead to an attacker impersonating another user. This issue affects Spring Security: from 7.0.0 through 7.0.4.

Fix

Public exploits 2

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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1

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Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 8.1 · vmwareNVD modified 2026-10-26 22:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 4