Headline
GHSA-cx7f-g6mp-7hqm: Path traversal vulnerability in functional web frameworks
Applications serving static resources through the functional web frameworks WebMvc.fn or WebFlux.fn are vulnerable to path traversal attacks. An attacker can craft malicious HTTP requests and obtain any file on the file system that is also accessible to the process in which the Spring application is running.
Specifically, an application is vulnerable when both of the following are true:
- the web application uses RouterFunctions to serve static resources
- resource handling is explicitly configured with a FileSystemResource location
However, malicious requests are blocked and rejected when any of the following is true:
- the Spring Security HTTP Firewall https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/servlet/exploits/firewall.html is in use
- the application runs on Tomcat or Jetty
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- GitHub Advisory Database
- GitHub Reviewed
- CVE-2024-38816
Path traversal vulnerability in functional web frameworks
High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 13, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 13, 2024
Package
maven org.springframework:spring-webmvc (Maven)
Affected versions
>= 6.1.0, < 6.1.13
>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.24
< 5.3.40
Patched versions
6.1.13
6.0.24
5.3.40
Description
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Sep 13, 2024
Last updated
Sep 13, 2024