Candidate: CVE-2016-9878
PublicDate: 2016-12-29 09:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9878
 https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-9878
 https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-14946
Description:
 An issue was discovered in Pivotal Spring Framework before 3.2.18, 4.2.x
 before 4.2.9, and 4.3.x before 4.3.5. Paths provided to the ResourceServlet
 were not properly sanitized and as a result exposed to directory traversal
 attacks.
Ubuntu-Description:
 It was discovered that Spring Framework incorrectly handled path inputs. An
 attacker could possibly use this issue to read arbitrary files.
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849167
Priority: low
Discovered-by: Shumpei Asahara and Yuji Ito
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_libspring-java:
 other: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/e2d6e709c3c65a4951eb096843ee75d5200cfcad (4.3.x branch)
 other: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/43bf008fbcd0d7945e2fcd5e30039bc4d74c7a98 (4.2.x branch)
 other: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/commit/a7dc48534ea501525f11369d369178a60c2f47d0 (3.2.x branch)
upstream_libspring-java: released (4.3.5-1)
precise_libspring-java: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_libspring-java: DNE (precise was needs-triage)
trusty_libspring-java: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_libspring-java: needed
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_libspring-java: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_libspring-java: DNE
xenial_libspring-java: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
yakkety_libspring-java: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_libspring-java: ignored (reached end-of-life)
artful_libspring-java: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_libspring-java: not-affected (4.3.5-1)
cosmic_libspring-java: not-affected (4.3.5-1)
disco_libspring-java: not-affected (4.3.5-1)
eoan_libspring-java: not-affected (4.3.5-1)
focal_libspring-java: not-affected (4.3.5-1)
groovy_libspring-java: not-affected (4.3.5-1)
hirsute_libspring-java: not-affected (4.3.5-1)
impish_libspring-java: not-affected (4.3.5-1)
jammy_libspring-java: not-affected (4.3.5-1)
devel_libspring-java: not-affected (4.3.5-1)