Privilege Escalation Affecting org.springframework:spring-web package, versions [5.3.0,5.3.7) [5.0.0.RELEASE,5.2.15.RELEASE)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGSPRINGFRAMEWORK-1296829
- published 26 May 2021
- disclosed 26 May 2021
- credit Trung Pham of Viettel Cyber Security
Introduced: 26 May 2021
CVE-2021-22118 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.springframework:spring-web to version 5.3.7, 5.2.15.RELEASE or higher.
Overview
org.springframework:spring-web is a package that provides a comprehensive programming and configuration model for modern Java-based enterprise applications - on any kind of deployment platform.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Privilege Escalation. By recreating the temporary storage directory, a locally authenticated malicious user can read or modify files that have been uploaded to the WebFlux application, or overwrite arbitrary files with multipart request data.