CVE-2022-22978

Publication date 19 May 2022

Last updated 24 June 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

In spring security versions prior to 5.4.11+, 5.5.7+ , 5.6.4+ and older unsupported versions, RegexRequestMatcher can easily be misconfigured to be bypassed on some servlet containers. Applications using RegexRequestMatcher with `.` in the regular expression are possibly vulnerable to an authorization bypass.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libspring-java	26.04 LTS resolute	Needs evaluation
	25.10 questing	Needs evaluation
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.10 oracular	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Needs evaluation
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Needs evaluation
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Ignored end of standard support, was needs-triage
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored end of standard support, was needs-triage
	16.04 LTS xenial	Needs evaluation
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage
libspring-security-2.0-java	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

sbeattie

this is likely libspring-security-2.0-java and not libspring-java directly.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H