Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libspring-java (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published21 Mar 2026
- disclosed27 May 2021
Introduced: 27 May 2021
CVE-2021-22118 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libspring-java package and not the libspring-java package as distributed by Ubuntu.
In Spring Framework, versions 5.2.x prior to 5.2.15 and versions 5.3.x prior to 5.3.7, a WebFlux application is vulnerable to a privilege escalation: by (re)creating 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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2021-22118
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210713-0005/
- https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2021-22118
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html