Relative Path Overwrite (RPO) Affecting io.springfox:springfox-swagger-ui package, versions [,2.10.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    1.74% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-IOSPRINGFOX-1075064
  • published 11 Oct 2019
  • disclosed 10 Oct 2019
  • credit crazykid95

How to fix?

Upgrade io.springfox:springfox-swagger-ui to version 2.10.0 or higher.

Overview

io.springfox:springfox-swagger-ui is an Automated JSON API documentation for API's built with Spring

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Relative Path Overwrite (RPO). Attackers are able to use the Relative Path Overwrite (RPO) technique to perform CSS-based input field value exfiltration, such as exfiltration of a CSRF token value i.e. allows the embedding of untrusted JSON data from remote servers, using <style>@import within the JSON data.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.5 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    None
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NVD

9.8 critical