From 7f38c656ca5d7caec55fbd67eb6779882c557873 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luke Taylor <luke.taylor@springsource.com>
Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 22:59:33 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] SEC-820: Expand regular expression used in hierarchical
 roles.

---
 .../userdetails/hierarchicalroles/RoleHierarchyImpl.java        | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/userdetails/hierarchicalroles/RoleHierarchyImpl.java b/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/userdetails/hierarchicalroles/RoleHierarchyImpl.java
index 7b6d68e2cd..76782d66c0 100755
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/userdetails/hierarchicalroles/RoleHierarchyImpl.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/springframework/security/userdetails/hierarchicalroles/RoleHierarchyImpl.java
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ public class RoleHierarchyImpl implements RoleHierarchy {
      * references a set of the reachable lower roles.
      */
     private void buildRolesReachableInOneStepMap() {
-        String parsingRegex = "(\\s*(\\w+)\\s*\\>\\s*(\\w+))";
+        String parsingRegex = "(\\s*([^\\s>]+)\\s*\\>\\s*([^\\s>]+))";
         Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(parsingRegex);
 
         Matcher roleHierarchyMatcher = pattern.matcher(roleHierarchyStringRepresentation);