CVE-2024-22234 CVE-2024-22234: Broken Access Control in Spring Security With Direct Use of isFullyAuthenticated

What is CVE-2024-22234?

CVE-2024-22234 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Spring Security, published on 20 Feb 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In Spring Security, versions 6.1.x prior to 6.1.7 and versions 6.2.x prior to 6.2.2, an application is vulnerable to broken access control when it directly uses the AuthenticationTrustResolver.isFullyAuthenticated(Authentication) method.

Specifically, an application is vulnerable if:

* The application uses AuthenticationTrustResolver.isFullyAuthenticated(Authentication) directly and a null authentication parameter is passed to it resulting in an erroneous true return value.

An application is not vulnerable if any of the following is true:

* The application does not use AuthenticationTrustResolver.isFullyAuthenticated(Authentication) directly. * The application does not pass null to AuthenticationTrustResolver.isFullyAuthenticated * The application only uses isFullyAuthenticated via Method Security https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/servlet/authorization/method-security.html  or HTTP Request Security https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/servlet/authorization/authorize-http-requests.html

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-22234?

4 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.springframework.security:spring-security-core. It affects 1 product.

Products include Vmware Spring Security.

How do I fix CVE-2024-22234?

Upgrade org.springframework.security:spring-security-core to a fixed version for your release line: 6.1.7 or 6.2.2.

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

Is CVE-2024-22234 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-22234 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Spring Security

• CVE-2014-3527 Authorization Bypass in Spring Security Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-59354 Spring Security OAuth2 Authorization Server: Insufficient validation of Dynamic Client Registration metadata Critical 9.6
• CVE-2026-59270 Spring Security embedded UnboundID LDAP server exposes well-known administrative bind DN on all network interfaces Critical 9.4
• CVE-2026-22732 Under Some Conditions Spring Security HTTP Headers Are not Written Critical 9.1
• CVE-2023-34034 Access Control Bypass in Spring Security Critical 9.1

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as ECHO-4afd-6578-ce80, GHSA-w3w6-26f2-p474, ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2024-22234.