CVE-2024-38819
Published: 19 December 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-38819 is a high-severity Path Traversal (CWE-22) vulnerability in Spring (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 0.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
Deeper analysis
CVE-2024-38819 is a path traversal vulnerability affecting Spring applications that serve static resources via the functional web frameworks WebMvc.fn or WebFlux.fn. The flaw allows crafted requests to access files outside the intended static resource directories on the underlying filesystem.
Unauthenticated remote attackers can exploit the issue over the network by sending malicious HTTP requests, resulting in disclosure of any file readable by the Spring application process. The vulnerability carries a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 with a high impact on confidentiality.
The Spring security advisory at https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-38819 and the related NetApp advisory describe available patches and mitigation steps for affected deployments. The EPSS score has remained at a peak of 0.9351 since disclosure with no material upward movement observed.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-3583
Vulnerability details
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…
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in which the Spring application is running.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.