High

Signature forgery in Spring Boot's Loader

  • Disclosed: 23.08.2024
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 12:21

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.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.22, >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.17, >= 3.1.0, < 3.1.13, >= 3.2.0, < 3.2.9, >= 3.3.0, < 3.3.3 2.7.22, 3.0.17, 3.1.13, 3.2.9, 3.3.3
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classic >= 2.7.0, < 2.7.22, >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.17, >= 3.1.0, < 3.1.13, >= 3.2.0, < 3.2.9, >= 3.3.0, < 3.3.3 2.7.22, 3.0.17, 3.1.13, 3.2.9, 3.3.3

References

CVSS score 6.3/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-290, CWE-347
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven)
Package
org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader, org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classic
Disclosed
23.08.2024
Updated
11.10.2026 12:21

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-7cj3-x93g-gj76 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-loader-classic

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This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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