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CVE-2024-38827: Spring Security Authorization Bypass for Case Sensitive Comparisons

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-12-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-639

Description

The usage of String.toLowerCase() and String.toUpperCase() has some Locale dependent exceptions that could potentially result in authorization rules not working properly.

Affected products

• Spring by VMware Tanzu Spring Security: from 5.7.0 through 5.7.13, 5.8.0 - 5.8.15, 6.0.0 - 6.0.13, 6.1.0 - 6.1.11, 6.2.0 - 6.2.7, 6.3.0 - 6.3.4, Older unsupported versions are also affected

References

• https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-38827
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250124-0007/

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