🔐 CVE Alert

CVE-2026-22747

MEDIUM 6.8

Unauthorized User Impersonation when Using X.509 Client Certificates

CVSS Score
6.8
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

Vendor spring
Product spring security
Ecosystems
Industries
TechnologyEnterprise
Published Apr 22, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

Affected Versions

Spring / Spring Security
7.0.0 ≤ 7.0.4

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
spring.io: https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22747