CVE-2024-38820

The fix for CVE-2022-22968 made disallowedFields patterns in DataBinder case insensitive. However, String.toLowerCase() has some Locale dependent exceptions that could potentially result in fields not protected as expected.

Red Hat Lightwell has released org.springframework:spring-context 5.3.18.rhlw-00010 with backported fixes for CVE-2022-22968, CVE-2024-38820, and CVE-2025-22233.

CVE-2022-22968: In Spring Framework versions 5.3.0 - 5.3.18, 5.2.0 - 5.2.20, and older unsupported versions, the patterns for disallowedFields on a DataBinder are case sensitive which means a field is not effectively protected unless it is listed with both upper and lower case for the first character of the field, including upper and lower case for the first character of all nested fields within the property path.

CVE-2024-38820: CVE-2024-38820: Spring Framework DataBinder Case Sensitive Match Exception

CVE-2025-22233: CVE-2024-38820 ensured Locale-independent, lowercase conversion for both the configured disallowedFields patterns and for request parameter names. However, there are still cases where it is possible to bypass the disallowedFields checks.

Affected Spring Products and Versions

Spring Framework:

• 6.2.0 - 6.2.6

• 6.1.0 - 6.1.19

• 6.0.0 - 6.0.27

• 5.3.0 - 5.3.42

• Older, unsupported versions are also affected

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.

Affected version(s)Fix Version Availability 6.2.x 6.2.7 OSS6.1.x 6.1.20 OSS6.0.x 6.0.28 Commercial https://enterprise.spring.io/ 5.3.x 5.3.43 Commercial https://enterprise.spring.io/ No further mitigation steps are necessary.

Generally, we recommend using a dedicated model object with properties only for data binding, or using constructor binding since constructor arguments explicitly declare what to bind together with turning off setter binding through the declarativeBinding flag. See the Model Design section in the reference documentation.

For setting binding, prefer the use of allowedFields (an explicit list) over disallowedFields.

Credit

This issue was responsibly reported by the TERASOLUNA Framework Development Team from NTT DATA Group Corporation.

This patched artifact is a drop-in replacement for org.springframework:spring-context 5.3.18 from Maven Central.

Red Hat Lightwell has released org.springframework:spring-web 5.3.18.rhlw-00010 with backported fixes for CVE-2016-1000027, CVE-2024-22259, CVE-2024-22262, CVE-2024-38809, and CVE-2024-38820.

CVE-2016-1000027: Pivotal Spring Framework through 5.3.16 suffers from a potential remote code execution (RCE) issue if used for Java deserialization of untrusted data. Depending on how the library is implemented within a product, this issue may or not occur, and authentication may be required. NOTE: the vendor's position is that untrusted data is not an intended use case. The product's behavior will not be changed because some users rely on deserialization of trusted data.

CVE-2024-22259: CVE-2024-22259: Spring Framework URL Parsing with Host Validation (2nd report)

CVE-2024-22262: Applications that use UriComponentsBuilder to parse an externally provided URL (e.g. through a query parameter) AND perform validation checks on the host of the parsed URL may be vulnerable to a open redirect https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/601.html  attack or to a SSRF attack if the URL is used after passing validation checks.

This is the same as CVE-2024-22259 https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-22259  and CVE-2024-22243 https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-22243 , but with different input.

CVE-2024-38809: Applications that parse ETags from "If-Match" or "If-None-Match" request headers are vulnerable to DoS attack.

Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.

Users of older, unsupported versions could enforce a size limit on "If-Match" and "If-None-Match" headers, e.g. through a Filter.

CVE-2024-38820: CVE-2024-38820: Spring Framework DataBinder Case Sensitive Match Exception

This patched artifact is a drop-in replacement for org.springframework:spring-web 5.3.18 from Maven Central.

Root has patched CVE-2024-38820 in the org.springframework:spring-web package for Root:Maven. Multiple fixed versions available.

The fix for CVE-2022-22968 made disallowedFields patterns in DataBinder case insensitive. However, String.toLowerCase() has some Locale dependent exceptions that could potentially result in fields not protected as expected.

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