CVE-2024-38807: Signature forgery in Spring Boot's Loader

August 23, 2024 (updated March 27, 2025)

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.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-7cj3-x93g-gj76
github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38807
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250117-0006
spring.io/security/cve-2024-38807

Code Behaviors & Features

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