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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-2181-1 shiro -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

19 Apr 2020

Affected Packages:

shiro

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2020-1957.

More information:

It was discovered that there was a path-traversal issue in Apache Shiro, a security framework for the Java programming language. A specially-crafted request could cause an authentication bypass.

• CVE-2020-1957

  Apache Shiro before 1.5.2, when using Apache Shiro with Spring dynamic controllers, a specially crafted request may cause an authentication bypass.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.2.3-1+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your shiro packages.

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