What is GHSA-2jrg-rf5x-568g?

GHSA-2jrg-rf5x-568g is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Spring Security Vulnerable to Unauthorized User Impersonation when Using X.509 Client Certificates

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-2jrg-rf5x-568g cover?

GHSA-2jrg-rf5x-568g covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-22747. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-2jrg-rf5x-568g?

GHSA-2jrg-rf5x-568g has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-2jrg-rf5x-568g?

GHSA-2jrg-rf5x-568g affects 1 product, including: maven/org.springframework.security:spring-security-web:\u003e= 7.0.0, \u003c= 7.0.4.

GHSA-2jrg-rf5x-568gMediumCVSS 6.8

Spring Security Vulnerable to Unauthorized User Impersonation when Using X.509 Client Certificates

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

April 22, 2026

Last Modified

April 29, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-22747 →

📋 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 products1

maven/org.springframework.security:spring-security-web:>= 7.0.0, <= 7.0.4

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-22747
https://spring.io/security/cve-2026-22747
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security/commit/88118afb8f9357ae7cc215500a441e89fee701c3
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2jrg-rf5x-568g