CVE-2022-32532 Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

What is CVE-2022-32532?

CVE-2022-32532 is a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Apache Shiro, published on 28 Jun 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Apache Shiro before 1.9.1, A RegexRequestMatcher can be misconfigured to be bypassed on some servlet containers. Applications using RegExPatternMatcher with `.` in the regular expression are possibly vulnerable to an authorization bypass.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-32532?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.apache.shiro:shiro-core. It affects 1 product.

Products include Apache Shiro.

How do I fix CVE-2022-32532?

Upgrade org.apache.shiro:shiro-core to 1.9.1 or later.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2022-32532 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-32532 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 2 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Other vulnerabilities in Apache Shiro

• CVE-2023-34478 Path Traversal in Apache Shiro Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-40664 Authentication Bypass Vulnerability in Shiro when forwarding or including via RequestDispatcher Critical 9.8
• CVE-2021-41303 Apache Shiro vulnerable to a specially crafted HTTP request causing an authentication bypass Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-17523 Authentication bypass in Apache Shiro Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-17510 Authentication bypass in Apache Shiro Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-32532, GHSA-4cf5-xmhp-3xj7, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-32532.