High 8.1Published Apr 22, 2026

CVE-2026-22747Vulnerability in Spring Spring Security.

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 07:10 UTC)

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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.

CVSS: 8.1 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-297, CWE-295
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jul 15, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

vmware spring_security vmware:spring_security	from 7.0.0 before 7.0.5	NVD

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22747vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-22747
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2460487
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-22747.json

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