Spring Security Advisories

CVE-2018-1256: Issuer validation regression in Spring Cloud SSO Connector

HIGH | APRIL 30, 2018 | CVE-2018-1256

Description

Spring Cloud SSO Connector, version 2.1.2, contains a regression which disables issuer validation in resource servers that are not bound to the SSO service. In PCF deployments with multiple SSO service plans, a remote attacker can authenticate to unbound resource servers which use this version of the SSO Connector with tokens generated from another service plan.

Affected Spring Products and Versions

  • Spring Cloud SSO Connector version 2.1.2

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

  • Releases that have fixed this issue include:</p><ul><li>Spring Cloud SSO Connector: 2.1.3</li></ul>
  • Alternatively, you can perform <u>one</u> of the following workarounds:</p><ul><li>Bind your resource server to the SSO service plan via a service instance binding</li><li>Set “sso.connector.cloud.available=true” within your Spring application properties</li></ul>

Credit

This vulnerability was responsibly reported by the Pivotal SSO Service team.

History

  • 2018-04-30: Initial vulnerability report published

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