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Red Hat JBossEAP: Path Traversal (CVE-2016-9878)

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Red Hat JBossEAP: Path Traversal (CVE-2016-9878)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
12/21/2016
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
09/20/2024

Description

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.. It was found that ResourceServlet in Spring Framework does not sanitize the paths that have been provided properly. An attacker can utilize this flaw to conduct a directory traversal attacks.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

References

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