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CVE-2026-22747

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2026-04-22 Modified: 2026-07-15

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.

Affected Platforms

Vmware Spring Security

Weakness Type

CWE-297, CWE-295

References