High severity · published May 25, 2017
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…
8.8
CVSS
79.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)79.2% · higher than 100% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SS
Spring Security Oauth · Pivotal
1.0.0; 1.0.1; 1.0.2; 1.0.3; 1.0.4; 1.0.5; +10 more · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4977
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4977
www.openwall.com
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/16/1
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/0841d849c23418c473ccb9183cbf41a317cb0476e44be48022ce3488%40%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37d7e820fc65a768de3e096e98382d5529a52a039f093e59357d0bc0%40%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5e6dd946635bbcc9e1f2591599ad0fab54f2dc3714196af3b17893f2%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/96c017115069408cec5e82ce1e6293facab398011f6db7e1befbe274%40%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
Vendor Advisory
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-4977
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