CVE 6.8 MEDIUM

Unauthorized User Impersonation when Using X.509 Client Certificates_CVE-2026-22747

6.8 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-22747
Source vmware
Published Apr 22, 2026 at 05:08

Affected Product

Vendor Spring
Product Spring Security
Version 7.0.0
Affected Versions Spring Spring Security 7.0.0

References

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