CVE-2024-38816 – CVE-2024-38816: Path traversal vulnerability in functional web frameworks

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2024-38816

13 Sep 2024 — Applications serving static resources through the functional web frameworks WebMvc.fn or WebFlux.fn are vulnerable to path traversal attacks. An attacker can craft malicious HTTP requests and obtain any file on the file system that is also accessible to the process in which the Spring application is running. Specifically, an application is vulnerable when both of the following are true: * the web application uses RouterFunctions to serve static resources * resource handling is explicitly configured with a F... • https://github.com/masa42/CVE-2024-38816-PoC • CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') •