Vigil@nce - Spring Framework: directory traversal via ResourceServlet
February 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories via ResourceServlet of Spring
Framework, in order to read a file outside the service root path.
Impacted products: Fedora.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 22/12/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Spring Framework product offers a web service.
However, user’s data are directly inserted in an access path.
Sequences such as "/.." can thus be used to go in the upper
directory.
An attacker can therefore traverse directories via ResourceServlet
of Spring Framework, in order to read a file outside the service
root path.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Spring-Framework-directory-traversal-via-ResourceServlet-21453