CVE-2016-4977

Summary

CVECVE-2016-4977
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-05-25 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:32:00 UTC
DescriptionWhen 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-19

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 1.0.0 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 1.0.1 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 1.0.2 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 1.0.3 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 1.0.4 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 1.0.5 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.0 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.1 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.2 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.3 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.4 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.5 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.6 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.7 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.8 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.9 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 1.0.0 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 1.0.1 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 1.0.2 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 1.0.3 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 1.0.4 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 1.0.5 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.0 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.1 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.2 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.3 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.4 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.5 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.6 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.7 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.8 All All All
Application Pivotal Spring Security Oauth 2.0.9 All All All

References

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CVE-2016-4977 Remote Code Execution (RCE) in Spring Security OAuth | Security | Pivotal CONFIRM pivotal.io Vendor Advisory
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
oss-security - Fwd: [CVE-2016-4977] Apache Fineract remote code execution vulnerabilities fixed in v1.3.0 MLIST www.openwall.com
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CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 981223 Java (maven) Security Update for org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth2 (GHSA-7q9c-h23x-65fq)
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