CVE-2016-9878

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-12-29 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

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.

Affected products

Spring Framework: through 3.2.0; 4.2.0, 4.3.0
Spring Framework: 3.2.1, 3.2.2, 3.2.3, 3.2.4, 3.2.5, 3.2.6 (+23)

References

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95072
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040698
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3115
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00012.html
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-9878
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180419-0002/
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2018-3678067.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html

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