CVE-2024-38819 (High) detected in spring-webmvc-5.3.39.jar

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CVE-2024-38819 - High Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - spring-webmvc-5.3.39.jar

Spring Web MVC

Library home page: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework

Path to dependency file: /pom.xml

Path to vulnerable library: /pom.xml

Dependency Hierarchy:

• spring-boot-starter-hateoas-2.7.18.jar (Root Library)
  • spring-boot-starter-web-2.7.18.jar
    • ❌ spring-webmvc-5.3.39.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: f98a7663cd4534d7282b786a5f475d4e4b48c1c7

Found in base branch: master

Vulnerability Details

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.

This is similar to CVE-2024-38816, but with different input.

Publish Date: 2024-12-19

URL: CVE-2024-38819

CVSS 3 Score Details (7.5)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: High
  • Integrity Impact: None
  • Availability Impact: None

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-38819

Release Date: 2024-12-19

Fix Resolution (org.springframework:spring-webmvc): 6.1.14

Direct dependency fix Resolution (org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-hateoas): 3.2.11

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