CVE-2011-2730

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-12-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

VMware SpringSource Spring Framework before 2.5.6.SEC03, 2.5.7.SR023, and 3.x before 3.0.6, when a container supports Expression Language (EL), evaluates EL expressions in tags twice, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a (1) name attribute in a (a) spring:hasBindErrors tag; (2) path attribute in a (b) spring:bind or (c) spring:nestedpath tag; (3) arguments, (4) code, (5) text, (6) var, (7) scope, or (8) message attribute in a (d) spring:message or (e) spring:theme tag; or (9) var, (10) scope, or (11) value attribute in a (f) spring:transform tag, aka "Expression Language Injection."

Affected products

Springsource Spring Framework: through 2.5.7_sr01; through 3.0.5; 2.5.0, 2.5.0-rc1, 2.5.0-rc2, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.5.3 (+9)

References

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