THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-9878
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-9878

Spring Framework vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.6%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Pivotal Software
Affected product
Spring Framework
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2016-12-29

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 5.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-9878

  • Confirm whether Pivotal Software Spring Framework is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-9878.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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