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CVE-2026-22747
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-04-22T06:16:03.933 · Last modified 2026-06-30T03:17:27.037

Summary

Vulnerability in Spring Spring Security. SubjectX500PrincipalExtractor does not correctly handle certain malformed X.509 certificate CN values, which can lead to reading the wrong value for the username. In a carefully crafted certificate, this can lead to an attacker impersonating another user. This issue affects Spring Security: from 7.0.0 through 7.0.4.

Affected products

vmware — spring_security

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References

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