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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-34036"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-07-17T10:00:43.245Z"
updatedAt: "2024-10-30T14:52:30.766Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:53.804Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-34036"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-34036.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34036"
title: "Forwarded header exploit with Spring HATEOAS on WebFlux"
summary: "\nReactive web applications that use Spring HATEOAS to produce hypermedia-based responses might be exposed to malicious forwarded headers if they are not behind a trusted proxy that ensures correctness of such headers, or if they don't have anything else in place to handle (and possibly discard) forwarded headers either in WebFlux or at the level of the underlying HTTP server.\n\nFor the application to be affected, it needs to satisfy the following requirements:\n\n  *  It needs to use the reactive web stack (Spring WebFlux) and Spring HATEOAS to create links in hypermedia-based responses.\n  *  The application infrastructure does not guard against clients submitting (X-)Forwarded… headers.\n\n\n\n\n\n"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1.5.4 or older","status":"affected"},{"version":"2.0.4 or older","status":"affected"},{"version":"2.1.0","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"Spring","product":"Spring HATEOAS","platforms":["Windows","MacOS","Linux","Android","ARM","64 bit","iOS","32 bit","x86"],"defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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