CVE-2024-38807: Signature Forgery Vulnerability in Spring Boot's Loader

Summary

Applications that use spring-boot-loader or spring-boot-loader-classic and contain custom code that performs signature verification of nested jar files may be vulnerable to signature forgery where content that appears to have been signed by one signer has, in fact, been signed by another.

Timeline

1. Aug 23, 2024, 8:26 AM UTCCVE published
2. Aug 23, 2024, 5:13 PM UTCCISA SSVC assessment

   Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

3. Mar 27, 2025, 4:36 PM UTCRecord last updated

Affected versions

• Spring Boot

  From 2.7.x · fixed in 2.7.22; From 3.0.x · fixed in 3.0.17; From 3.1.x · fixed in 3.1.13; From 3.2.x · fixed in 3.2.9; From 3.3.x · fixed in 3.3.3

• org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loaderMaven

  From 2.7.0 · fixed in 2.7.22

• org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classicMaven

  From 2.7.0 · fixed in 2.7.22

• org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loaderMaven

  From 3.0.0 · fixed in 3.0.17

• org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classicMaven

  From 3.0.0 · fixed in 3.0.17

• org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loaderMaven

  From 3.1.0 · fixed in 3.1.13

• org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classicMaven

  From 3.1.0 · fixed in 3.1.13

• org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loaderMaven

  From 3.2.0 · fixed in 3.2.9

• org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classicMaven

  From 3.2.0 · fixed in 3.2.9

• org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loaderMaven

  From 3.3.0 · fixed in 3.3.3

• org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classicMaven

  From 3.3.0 · fixed in 3.3.3

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