Security Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package org.springframework.security:spring-security-core  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGSPRINGFRAMEWORKSECURITY-31612
  • published28 Dec 2016
  • disclosed28 Dec 2016
  • creditShumpei Asahara, Yuji Ito

Introduced: 28 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9879  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-417  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

org.springframework.security:spring-security-core is a package 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.