Bug 1200719 (CVE-2015-0201)

Summary:	CVE-2015-0201 Spring Framework: insufficiently random session ID in Java SockJS client
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	jrusnack, weli
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-03-11 09:37:01 UTC

The following flaw was found in Spring Framework 4.1.0 to 4.1.4:

Session id generation in the Java SockJS client is not sufficiently secure and could allow a user to send messages to another user’s session.

Note that this only affects users of the Java SockJS client, which generates its own session id. It does not affect browser clients even if they’re connecting to the same server.

Furthermore, since SockJS is a transport layer, when using a higher level messaging protocol on top such as STOMP over WebSocket with the spring-messaging module, application-level security may already be getting applied to STOMP messages and that can neutralize the impact of any potential attacks.

Upstream patches:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/dc5b5ca8ee09c890352f89b2dae58bc0132d6545
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/d63cfc8eebc396be009e733a81ebb4c984811f6e

External References:

http://pivotal.io/security/cve-2015-0201

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-03-11 09:40:49 UTC

Statement:

Not vulnerable. The 4.x versions of Spring Framework are not shipped in any Red Hat product as of March 2015.