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Directory Traversal in Spring Framework

MEDIUM | NOVEMBER 11, 2014 | CVE-2014-3625

Description

Some URLs were not santized correctly before use allowing an attacker to obtain any file on the file system that was also accessible to process in which the Spring web application was running.

Affected Spring Products and Versions

Spring Framework:

  • 4.1.0 - 4.1.1
  • 4.0.0 - 4.0.7
  • 3.2.11 and earlier

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.
Fix versionAvailability
4.1.2OSS
4.0.8OSS
3.2.12OSS

No further mitigation steps are necessary.

Credit

This issue was identified by Toshiaki Maki of NTT DATA Corporation and responsibly reported to Pivotal.

References

History

  • 2014-11-11: Initial vulnerability report published.

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