Vulnerability in Pivotal Spring Security Oauth
CVE-2016-4977
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.
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CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.792 (99.6th percentile), scored .
High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 100th percentile — 99.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.718 · newest: 0.792 · change: +0.074
Affected products
- Pivotal Spring Security Oauth — versions 1.0.0 to 1.0.5, 2.0.0 to 2.0.9
- Pivotal Spring Security Oauth — versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-4977 (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.apache.org/thread.html/37d7e820fc65a768de3e096e98382d5529a52a039f093e5935… (mailing-list)
- lists.apache.org/thread.html/0841d849c23418c473ccb9183cbf41a317cb0476e44be48022… (mailing-list)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/16/1 (mailing-list)
- lists.apache.org/thread.html/5e6dd946635bbcc9e1f2591599ad0fab54f2dc3714196af3b1… (mailing-list)
- lists.apache.org/thread.html/96c017115069408cec5e82ce1e6293facab398011f6db7e1be… (mailing-list)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2016-4977?
- CVE-2016-4977 is a high-severity vulnerability in Pivotal Spring Security Oauth, classified under CWE-19. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2017-05-25.
- How severe is CVE-2016-4977?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2016-4977 known to be exploited?
- 40 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.