Medium severity · published Aug 23, 2024
CVE-2024-38807
CVE-2024-38807: Signature Forgery Vulnerability in Spring Boot's Loader
6.3
CVSS
0.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Applications that use spring-boot-loader or spring-boot-loader-classic and contain custom code that performs signature verification of nested jar files may be vulnerable to signature forgery where content that appears to have been signed by one signer has, in fact, been signed by another.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.1% · higher than 2% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SB
Spring Boot · Spring
2.7.x before 2.7.22; 3.0.x before 3.0.17; 3.1.x before 3.1.13; 3.2.x before 3.2.9; 3.3.x before 3.3.3 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38807
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38807
spring.io
https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-38807
security.netapp.com
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250117-0006/
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