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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-1256

Spring Cloud SSO Connector, version 2.1.2, contains a regression which disables issuer validation in resource servers that are not bound to the SSO service. In PCF deployments with multiple SSO service plans, a remote attacker can authenticate to unbound resource servers which use this version of the SSO Connector with tokens generated from another service plan.

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CVE-2018-1256
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1 Nov 2026, 04:38 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-1256

core-osv · Original source

Published 7 May 2018, 16:22 UTC

Spring Cloud SSO Connector, version 2.1.2, contains a regression which disables issuer validation in resource servers that are not bound to the SSO service. In PCF deployments with multiple SSO service plans, a remote attacker can authenticate to unbound resource servers which use this version of the SSO Connector with tokens generated from another service plan.

osv:CVE-2018-1256
Complete source record
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      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:21.336296947Z",
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  "published_at": "2018-05-07T16:22:00.217+00:00"
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