Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

spring-projects/spring-roo

              master @ 079df68
            

Fixes

CVEs

HIGH

Peak severity

90.0%

Coverage

Highlights

Auth Bypass: 6 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.

addon-security: most-fixed (6 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.

10 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Auth Bypass: Generated web applications suffered from broken authentication and authorization workflows due to misordered servlet filters in web.xml and an overly permissive default catch-all interceptor pattern. If filters like DelegatingFilterProxy execute in the wrong sequence relative to MVC or method override filters, authorization rules can be completely bypassed.

Insecure Defaults: By default, the generated security configurations did not mandate strong password hashing algorithms like BCrypt, leading to weak password storage across generated applications.

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS): Generated JSP templates and UI views historically lacked default output encoding and HTML/XML escaping, allowing malicious user input to execute arbitrary JavaScript in end-user browsers.