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Vulnerability · Published Aug 23, 2024 · Assigned by vmware

CVE-2024-38807CVE-2024-38807: Signature Forgery Vulnerability in Spring Boot's Loader

Medium 6.3

In plain English

A medium-severity authentication bypass by spoofing in Spring Boot from Spring. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 2% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.3Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 97.9% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Applications that use spring-boot-loader or spring-boot-loader-classic and contain custom code that performs signature verification of nested jar files may be vulnerable to signature forgery where content that appears to have been signed by one signer has, in fact, been signed by another.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12libspring-javano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2024-38807
Debian:13libspring-javano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2024-38807
Debian:14libspring-javano fix listedDEBIAN-CVE-2024-38807
Mavenorg.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader3.2.9GHSA-7cj3-x93g-gj76
Mavenorg.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader2.7.22GHSA-7cj3-x93g-gj76
Mavenorg.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader3.0.17GHSA-7cj3-x93g-gj76
Mavenorg.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader3.1.13GHSA-7cj3-x93g-gj76
Mavenorg.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader3.3.3GHSA-7cj3-x93g-gj76
Mavenorg.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classic3.2.9GHSA-7cj3-x93g-gj76
Mavenorg.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classic3.3.3GHSA-7cj3-x93g-gj76
Mavenorg.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classic3.1.13GHSA-7cj3-x93g-gj76
Mavenorg.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classic3.0.17GHSA-7cj3-x93g-gj76
Mavenorg.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classic2.7.22GHSA-7cj3-x93g-gj76
Ubuntu:25.10libspring-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38807
Ubuntu:26.04:LTSlibspring-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38807
Ubuntu:26.10libspring-javano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2024-38807

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Spring Spring Boot 2.7.x – before 2.7.223.0.x – before 3.0.173.1.x – before 3.1.133.2.x – before 3.2.93.3.x – before 3.3.3

Weakness: CWE-347, CWE-290 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References