CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-1199

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2018-03-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-03-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• vmware spring framework (>= 4.3.0 < 4.3.14) • vmware spring framework (>= 5.0.0 < 5.0.3) • vmware spring security (>= 4.1.0 < 4.1.5) • vmware spring security (>= 4.2.0 < 4.2.4) • vmware spring security (>= 5.0.0 < 5.0.1) • redhat fuse 1.0 • oracle rapid planning 12.1 • oracle rapid planning 12.2 • oracle retail xstore point of service 7.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References