CVE-2016-9878 High Severity Vulnerability detected by WhiteSource

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CVE-2016-9878 - High Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - spring-webmvc-4.3.2.RELEASE.jar

Spring Web MVC

path: /root/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-webmvc/4.3.2.RELEASE/spring-webmvc-4.3.2.RELEASE.jar

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

Dependency Hierarchy:

• spring-boot-starter-web-1.4.0.RELEASE.jar (Root Library)
  • ❌ spring-webmvc-4.3.2.RELEASE.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Vulnerability Details

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.

Publish Date: 2016-12-29

URL: CVE-2016-9878

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://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-9878

Release Date: 2017-12-31

Fix Resolution: Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation: 4.3.x users should upgrade to 4.3.5 4.2.x users should upgrade to 4.2.9 3.2.x users should upgrade to 3.2.18 Note that few applications are likely to use the . It has been generally superseded since version 3.0 (circa 2009) by the and related classes that have been in use by default and provide much more advanced capabilities, see “” in the reference documentation. The is now deprecated in 3.2.x and 4.x and is removed altogether starting with version 5.

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