Bug 1408164 (CVE-2016-9878)

Summary:	CVE-2016-9878 Spring Framework: Directory Traversal in the Spring Framework ResourceServlet
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abhgupta, aileenc, alazarot, aszczucz, avibelli, awels, bdawidow, bmcclain, chazlett, dandread, dmcphers, eedri, epp-bugs, etirelli, fnasser, gjospin, gsterlin, gvarsami, huwang, java-sig-commits, jbalunas, jcoleman, jialiu, jokerman, jolee, jpallich, jschatte, jshepherd, kverlaen, ldimaggi, lgao, lmeyer, lsurette, mbaluch, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, mmccomas, mweiler, mwinkler, myarboro, nthomas, nwallace, puntogil, rrajasek, rwagner, rzhang, sbonazzo, sisharma, soa-p-jira, srevivo, tcunning, theute, tiwillia, tkirby, twalsh, ykaul
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	Spring Framework 3.2.18, Spring Framework 4.2.9, Spring Framework 4.3.5	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	It was found that ResourceServlet in Spring Framework does not sanitize the paths that have been provided properly. An attacker can utilize this flaw to conduct a directory traversal attacks.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-10-21 11:48:58 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1408165
Bug Blocks:	1408166

Description Adam Mariš 2016-12-22 10:59:26 UTC

It was found that paths provided to the ResourceServlet were not properly sanitized and as a result exposed to directory traversal attacks.

Upstream bug:

https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-14946

Upstream patches:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/e2d6e709c3c65a4951eb096843ee75d5200cfcad
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/43bf008fbcd0d7945e2fcd5e30039bc4d74c7a98
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/a7dc48534ea501525f11369d369178a60c2f47d0

External References:

https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-9878

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-12-22 11:00:35 UTC

Created springframework tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1408165]

Comment 2 Jason Shepherd 2017-01-03 00:39:55 UTC

Could not find any uses for ResourceServlet in Red Hat Mobile Application Platform. Marking as not affected.

Comment 4 Jason Shepherd 2017-01-03 01:27:52 UTC

EAP 5 is in Extended Life Support phase, so we won't fix this moderate issue on that product.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2017-11-02 20:09:15 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Fuse

Via RHSA-2017:3115 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3115