SCA: security update for org.springframework:spring-webflux, org.springframework:spring-webmvc (GHSA-cx7f-g6mp-7hqm)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 414164

Description

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

- 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: * the Spring Security HTTP Firewall https://docs.spring.io/spring-
security/reference/servlet/exploits/firewall.html is in use * the application runs on Tomcat or Jetty
(CVE-2024-38816)

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 414164

Version: Revision 1.14

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.69

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-38816

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/13/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/13/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-38816

cwe: CWE-22

Detections

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