FKIE_CVE-2016-9878
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-12-29 09:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:56
Severity
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
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