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SCA: security update for org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2 (GHSA-7q9c-h23x-65fq)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422327

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - When processing authorization requests using the whitelabel views in Spring Security OAuth 2.0.0 to 2.0.9
 and 1.0.0 to 1.0.5, the response_type parameter value was executed as Spring SpEL which enabled a
 malicious user to trigger remote code execution via the crafting of the value for response_type.
 (CVE-2016-4977)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7q9c-h23x-65fq

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422327

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 8/8/2025

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-4977

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/18/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-4977

BID: 91672