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medium 5.1

CVE-2011-2731 json

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization in Spring Security

published 2012-12-05 13 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also GHSA-4644-hg35-55m9 , EUVD-2022-2313

cvss
5.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Race condition in the RunAsManager mechanism in VMware SpringSource Spring Security before 2.0.7 and 3.0.x before 3.0.6 stores the Authentication object in the shared security context, which allows attackers to gain privileges via a crafted thread.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-core 2.0.7, 3.0.6

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-2731 updated cvss 4.3

Security: Privilege escalation by using RunAsManager mechanism

  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 unspecified unspecified
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework.security:spring-security-core
<2.0.7
>=3.0.0, <3.0.6
2.0.7
3.0.6

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
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References

Sources

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