Path Traversal Vulnerability in Spring 

Issue date: 12-03-2025
Affects versions: 16.1

Security Issue ID

SECURITY-584

 

Affected Product Version(s)

16.1.0  (and previous patch releases)

 

Severity 

High

 

Description

CVE-2024-38819

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.

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Instructions

Customers are recommended to upgrade to the latest version. As of the time of writing,  16.2.0.