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SCA: security update for eu.hinsch:spring-boot-actuator-logview (GHSA-p4q6-qxjx-8jgp)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417279

Description

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

 - spring-boot-actuator-logview in a library that adds a simple logfile viewer as spring boot actuator
 endpoint. It is maven package "eu.hinsch:spring-boot-actuator-logview". In spring-boot-actuator-logview
 before version 0.2.13 there is a directory traversal vulnerability. The nature of this library is to
 expose a log file directory via admin (spring boot actuator) HTTP endpoints. Both the filename to view and
 a base folder (relative to the logging folder root) can be specified via request parameters. While the
 filename parameter was checked to prevent directory traversal exploits (so that `filename=../somefile`
 would not work), the base folder parameter was not sufficiently checked, so that
 `filename=somefile&base=../` could access a file outside the logging base directory). The vulnerability
 has been patched in release 0.2.13. Any users of 0.2.12 should be able to update without any issues as
 there are no other changes in that release. There is no workaround to fix the vulnerability other than
 updating or removing the dependency. However, removing read access of the user the application is run with
 to any directory not required for running the application can limit the impact. Additionally, access to
 the logview endpoint can be limited by deploying the application behind a reverse proxy. (CVE-2021-21234)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p4q6-qxjx-8jgp

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 417279

Version: Revision 1.5

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: 3.3

Percentile: 50.87

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-21234

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.7

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/5/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-21234

cwe: CWE-22