Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
spring-projects/spring-social
master @ e01365f
2
Fixes
0
CVEs
HIGH
Peak severity
Highlights
Authentication Bypass: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.
SocialAuthenticationFilter: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.
1 high-severity fix in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Authentication Bypass: Anonymous user sessions were improperly treated as fully authenticated users, allowing unauthorized social connection mappings via the addConnection sink. Developers should verify that all integration filters explicitly check and reject anonymous principals prior to executing state-changing account linkages.
Open Redirect: OAuth redirect URI generation ignored X-Forwarded headers when deployed behind reverse proxies, leading to potential redirection vulnerabilities. Future modifications to request URL resolution must respect proxy headers to avoid mismatching schemes or hosts during authorization flows.