CVE-2016-4977 (GCVE-0-2016-4977)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-25 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 00:46
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Remote Code Execution
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Pivotal Spring Security OAuth Affected: 2.0.0 to 2.0.9
Affected: 1.0.0 to 1.0.5
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Date Public
2016-07-05 00:00
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