CVE-2018-1199 vulnerability in Pivotal Software and Other Products
Published on March 16, 2018
Spring Security (Spring Security 4.1.x before 4.1.5, 4.2.x before 4.2.4, and 5.0.x before 5.0.1; and Spring Framework 4.3.x before 4.3.14 and 5.0.x before 5.0.3) does not consider URL path parameters when processing security constraints. By adding a URL path parameter with special encodings, an attacker may be able to bypass a security constraint. The root cause of this issue is a lack of clarity regarding the handling of path parameters in the Servlet Specification. Some Servlet containers include path parameters in the value returned for getPathInfo() and some do not. Spring Security uses the value returned by getPathInfo() as part of the process of mapping requests to security constraints. In this particular attack, different character encodings used in path parameters allows secured Spring MVC static resource URLs to be bypassed.
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Affected Versions
Dell EMC Spring by Pivotal:- Version spring Security 4.1.0 - 4.1.4, 4.2.0 - 4.2.3, 5.0.0 is affected.
- Version Spring Framework 5.0.0 - 5.0.2, 4.3.0 - 4.3.13 is affected.
- Version Older unmaintained versions of Spring Security & Spring Framework were not analyzed and may be impacted is affected.
Exploit Probability
EPSS
1.51%
Percentile
80.93%
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