CVE-2024-22234

In Spring Security, versions 6.1.x prior to 6.1.7 and versions 6.2.x prior to 6.2.2, an application is vulnerable to broken access control when it directly uses the AuthenticationTrustResolver.isFullyAuthenticated(Authentication)method.

Specifically, an application is vulnerable if:

  *  The application uses AuthenticationTrustResolver.isFullyAuthenticated(Authentication)directly and a nullauthentication parameter is passed to it resulting in an erroneous truereturn value.


An application is not vulnerable if any of the following is true:

  *  The application does not use AuthenticationTrustResolver.isFullyAuthenticated(Authentication)directly.
  *  The application does not pass nullto AuthenticationTrustResolver.isFullyAuthenticated
  *  The application only uses isFullyAuthenticatedvia  Method Security https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/servlet/authorization/method-security.html or  HTTP Request Security https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/servlet/authorization/authorize-http-requests.html