CVE-2023-45669 — WebAuthn4J Spring Security provides Web Authentication specification support for

WebAuthn4J Spring Security provides Web Authentication specification support for Spring applications. Affected versions are subject to improper signature counter value handling. A flaw was found in webauthn4j-spring-security-core. When an authneticator returns an incremented sign

01What is this vulnerability?

WebAuthn4J Spring Security provides Web Authentication specification support for Spring applications. Affected versions are subject to improper signature counter value handling. A flaw was found in webauthn4j-spring-security-core. When an authneticator returns an incremented signature counter value during authentication, webauthn4j-spring-security-core does not properly persist the value, which…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
webauthn4j	webauthn4j	spring-security — < 0.9.1.RELEASE

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-10-16T18:20:50.301Z
• Last modified: 2024-09-13T19:36:56.097Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/webauthn4j/webauthn4j-spring-security/security/advisories/GHS…
• github.com — https://github.com/webauthn4j/webauthn4j-spring-security/commit/129700d74d83f9b9…
• www.w3.org — https://www.w3.org/TR/2021/REC-webauthn-2-20210408/#sctn-sign-counter