Directory Traversal Affecting spring-webmvc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
14.72% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-SPRINGWEBMVC-18548461
  • published5 Aug 2026
  • disclosed13 Sept 2024

Introduced: 13 Sep 2024

CVE-2024-38816  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 spring-webmvc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream spring-webmvc package and not the spring-webmvc package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Applications serving static resources through the functional web frameworks WebMvc.fn or WebFlux.fn are vulnerable to path traversal attacks. An attacker can craft malicious HTTP requests and obtain any file on the file system that is also accessible to the process in which the Spring application is running.

Specifically, an application is vulnerable when both of the following are true:

  • the web application uses RouterFunctions to serve static resources
  • resource handling is explicitly configured with a FileSystemResource location

However, malicious requests are blocked and rejected when any of the following is true:

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1