CVE-2024-22234 Information

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 

Reference

https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-22234