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Tracker / CVE-2026-47838

CVE-2026-47838

Medium 6.8

SubjectDnX509PrincipalExtractor 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. Affected versions: Spring Security 5.7.0 through 5.7.24; 5.8.0 through 5.8.26; 6.3.0 through 6.3.17; 6.4.0 through 6.4.17; 6.5.0 through 6.5.10.

Affected products and versions

vmware spring_security · … → 5.7.25
vmware spring_security · 5.8.0 → 5.8.27
vmware spring_security · 6.3.0 → 6.3.18
vmware spring_security · 6.4.0 → 6.4.18
vmware spring_security · 6.5.0 → 6.5.11

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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