Security Bypass Affecting org.springframework.security:spring-security-web package, versions [3.2.0.RELEASE,3.2.10.RELEASE) [4.0.0.RELEASE,4.1.4.RELEASE) [4.2.0.RELEASE,4.2.1.RELEASE)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGSPRINGFRAMEWORKSECURITY-31344
- published 28 Dec 2016
- disclosed 28 Dec 2016
- credit Shumpei Asahara, Yuji Ito
Introduced: 28 Dec 2016
CVE-2016-9879 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.springframework.security:spring-security-web to version 3.2.10.RELEASE, 4.1.4.RELEASE, 4.2.1.RELEASE or higher.
Overview
org.springframework.security:spring-security-web is a package within Spring Security that provides security services for the Spring IO Platform.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Security Bypass. It was found that Spring Security does not consider URL path parameters when processing security constraints. By adding a URL path parameter with an encoded / to a request an attacker may be able to bypass a security constraint.