Spring · Spring Security · CVE-2023-34042
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
Spring Security versions prior to 5.8.7
Spring Security versions prior to 6.0.7
Spring Security versions prior to 6.1.4
Spring Security versions prior to 6.2.0-M1
**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. This is an example of “CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource” and could result in an exploit. There are no known exploits at this time.
**Recommendations**
Update to Spring Security version 5.8.7 or later to mitigate any future exploits found around this issue.
Update to Spring Security version 6.0.7 or later to mitigate any future exploits found around this issue.
Update to Spring Security version 6.1.4 or later to mitigate any future exploits found around this issue.
Update to Spring Security version 6.2.0-M1 or later to mitigate any future exploits found around this issue.