CVE-2016-9878 (GCVE-0-2016-9878)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-29 09:02 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:07
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in Pivotal Spring Framework before 3.2.18, 4.2.x before 4.2.9, and 4.3.x before 4.3.5. Paths provided to the ResourceServlet were not properly sanitized and as a result exposed to directory traversal attacks.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • Directory Traversal
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Pivotal Spring Framework before 3.2.18, 4.2.x before 4.2.9, and 4.3.x before 4.3.5 Affected: Pivotal Spring Framework before 3.2.18, 4.2.x before 4.2.9, and 4.3.x before 4.3.5
Date Public
2016-12-29 00:00
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