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CVE-2014-0053

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-04-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

The default configuration of the Resources plugin 1.0.0 before 1.2.6 for Pivotal Grails 2.0.0 before 2.3.6 does not properly restrict access to files in the WEB-INF directory, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT due to different researchers and different vulnerability types. See CVE-2014-2857 for the META-INF variant and CVE-2014-2858 for the directory traversal.

Affected products

• Gopivotal Grails: 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.1.0 (+17)
• Gopivotal Grails-Resources: 1.0.0, 1.0.2, 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.4 (+8)

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2014-02/0194.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2014-02/0267.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56841
• http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2014-0053
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531281/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65678
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91270
• https://twitter.com/Ramsharan065/status/434975409134792704
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2014-02/0194.html
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2014-02/0267.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56841
• http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2014-0053

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