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CVE-2022-22978
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-05-19T15:15:08.057 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:29:17.077

Summary

In spring security versions prior to 5.4.11+, 5.5.7+ , 5.6.4+ and older unsupported versions, RegexRequestMatcher can easily be misconfigured to be bypassed on some servlet containers. Applications using RegexRequestMatcher with `.` in the regular expression are possibly vulnerable to an authorization bypass.

Affected products

vmware — spring_security

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References

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