How severe is CVE-2023-34042?

This vulnerability has a severity rating of MEDIUM with a CVSS score of 5.5 out of 10.

What type of vulnerability is CVE-2023-34042?

This is classified as CWE-732, which is a common weakness in software security.

CVE-2023-34042

MEDIUM Year: 2023

CVSS v3 Score

5.5

Medium

Weakness Type

CWE-732

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Vulnerability Description

The spring-security.xsd file inside the spring-security-config jar is world writable which means that if it were extracted it could be written by anyone with access to the file system. While there are no known exploits, this is an example of “CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource” and could result in an exploit. Users should update to the latest version of Spring Security to mitigate any future exploits found around this issue.

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