A remote attacker can inject LDAP special characters into the Distinguished Name (DN) construction in DefaultLdapRealm class. User-supplied username input is directly concatenated into the LDAP DN template without any escaping of RFC 2253 special characters. This allows an attacker to manipulate the DN structure used for LDAP bind authentication, potentially bypassing authentication or impersonating other users.
This issue affects all Apache Shiro versions through 2.2.0, and 3.0.0-alpha-1 when using DefaultLdapRealm
Upgrade to Apache Shiro 2.2.1 or 3.0.0-alpha-2 or later, which fixes the issue.
CVSS Score
8.8
EPSS Score
0.005
Published
2026-06-17
Default configurations of Apache Shiro have a session fixation vulnerability.
This issue affects Apache Shiro from 1.0 to 2.1.0, and 3.0.0-alpha-1.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.1.1, or 3.0.0-alpha-2 or later, which fixes the issue.
In the affected versions, when a session already exists, it is not invalidated upon successful login, nor is a new session being generated with a new ID.
CVSS Score
5.9
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2026-05-25
Default configurations of Apache Shiro send sensitive cookies in HTTPS session without 'Secure' attribute.
This issue affects Apache Shiro from 1.0 to 2.1.0, and 3.0.0-alpha-1.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.1.1, or 3.0.0-alpha-2 or later, which fixes the issue.
In the affected versions, Shiro-native session manager, as well as Remember-Me manager sends JSESSIONID and rememberMe cookies without 'secure' attribute by default.
CVSS Score
5.9
EPSS Score
0.003
Published
2026-05-25
Observable Timing Discrepancy vulnerability in Apache Shiro.
This issue affects Apache Shiro: from 1.*, 2.* before 2.0.7.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.7 or later, which fixes the issue.
Prior to Shiro 2.0.7, code paths for non-existent vs. existing users are different enough,
that a brute-force attack may be able to tell, by timing the requests only, determine if
the request failed because of a non-existent user vs. wrong password.
The most likely attack vector is a local attack only.
Shiro security model https://shiro.apache.org/security-model.html#username_enumeration discusses this as well.
Typically, brute force attack can be mitigated at the infrastructure level.
CVSS Score
1.0
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-02-10
Authentication Bypass by Alternate Name vulnerability in Apache Shiro.
This issue affects Apache Shiro: before 2.0.7.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.0.7, which fixes the issue.
The issue only effects static files. If static files are served from a case-insensitive filesystem,
such as default macOS setup, static files may be accessed by varying the case of the filename in the request.
If only lower-case (common default) filters are present in Shiro, they may be bypassed this way.
Shiro 2.0.7 and later has a new parameters to remediate this issue
shiro.ini: filterChainResolver.caseInsensitive = true
application.propertie: shiro.caseInsensitive=true
Shiro 3.0.0 and later (upcoming) makes this the default.
CVSS Score
5.3
EPSS Score
0.004
Published
2026-02-09
Apache Shiro before 1.13.0 or 2.0.0-alpha-4, may be susceptible to a path traversal attack that results in an authentication bypass when used together with path rewriting
Mitigation: Update to Apache Shiro 1.13.0+ or 2.0.0-alpha-4+, or ensure `blockSemicolon` is enabled (this is the default).
CVSS Score
6.5
EPSS Score
0.012
Published
2024-01-15
URL Redirection to Untrusted Site ('Open Redirect') vulnerability when "form" authentication is used in Apache Shiro.
Mitigation: Update to Apache Shiro 1.13.0+ or 2.0.0-alpha-4+.
CVSS Score
6.1
EPSS Score
0.015
Published
2023-12-14
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+
CVSS Score
9.8
EPSS Score
0.015
Published
2023-07-24
When using Apache Shiro before 1.11.0 together with Spring Boot 2.6+, a specially crafted HTTP request may cause an authentication bypass.
The authentication bypass occurs when Shiro and Spring Boot are using different pattern-matching techniques. Both Shiro and Spring Boot < 2.6 default to Ant style pattern matching.
Mitigation: Update to Apache Shiro 1.11.0, or set the following Spring Boot configuration value: `spring.mvc.pathmatch.matching-strategy = ant_path_matcher`
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.016
Published
2023-01-14