CVE-2023-34478

Publication date 24 July 2023

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Apache Shiro, before 1.12.0 or 2.0.0-alpha-3, may be susceptible to a path traversal attack that results in an authentication bypass when used together with APIs or other web frameworks that route requests based on non-normalized requests. Mitigation: Update to Apache Shiro 1.12.0+ or 2.0.0-alpha-3+

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
shiro	25.10 questing	Fixed 1.3.2-5ubuntu1
	25.04 plucky	Fixed 1.3.2-5ubuntu1
	24.10 oracular	Fixed 1.3.2-5ubuntu0.24.10.1
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 1.3.2-5ubuntu0.24.04.1~esm1
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Ignored see notes
	20.04 LTS focal	Ignored see notes
	18.04 LTS bionic	Ignored see notes
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored see notes
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

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Notes

hlibk

The upstream patch utilizes Java features which are unable to be used in jammy and below due to a lower Java release, and upstream does not seem to support older Java builds.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7147-1
Apache Shiro vulnerabilities
10 December 2024