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CVE-2024-38816

HIGH
Published 2024-09-13T06:10:06.598Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
7.5
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.928
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 92.8% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.998
Higher than 99.8% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE

Description

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

Available Exploits

WebMvc.fn/WebFlux.fn - Path Traversal

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.

ID: CVE-2024-38816
Author: pussycat0x High

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Affected Products

Spring

Spring

Affected Versions:

5.3.x 6.0.x 6.1.x
spring_by_vmware_tanzu

spring_framework

Affected Versions:

5.3.0
spring_by_vmware_tanzu

spring_framework

Affected Versions:

6.0.0
spring_by_vmware_tanzu

spring_framework

Affected Versions:

6.1.0

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH

Path traversal vulnerability in functional web frameworks

GHSA-cx7f-g6mp-7hqm

Advisory 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. 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

Affected Packages

Maven org.springframework:spring-webmvc
ECOSYSTEM: ≥6.1.0 <6.1.13
Maven org.springframework:spring-webflux
ECOSYSTEM: ≥6.1.0 <6.1.13
Maven org.springframework:spring-webmvc
ECOSYSTEM: ≥6.0.0 ≤6.0.23
Maven org.springframework:spring-webflux
ECOSYSTEM: ≥6.0.0 ≤6.0.23
Maven org.springframework:spring-webmvc
ECOSYSTEM: ≥5.3.0 ≤5.3.39
Maven org.springframework:spring-webflux
ECOSYSTEM: ≥5.3.0 ≤5.3.39

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38816
WEB https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/d86bf8b2056429edf5494456cffcb2b243331c49
PACKAGE https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework
WEB https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241227-0001
WEB https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-38816

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: September 13, 2024, Modified: December 27, 2024

References

https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-38816
Published: 2024-09-13T06:10:06.598Z
Last Modified: 2025-03-18T15:06:29.551Z
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