GHSA-cx7f-g6mp-7hqm: org.springframework:spring-webmvc (CVE-2024-38816)

Path traversal vulnerability in functional web frameworks

CVSS 7.5 HighCriticalEPSS 0.21 · 97th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 7.5 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.21 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 13 Sept 2024, 06:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
org.springframework:spring-webmvc	Maven	>=6.1.0, <6.1.13 \|\| >=6.0.0, <=6.0.23 \|\| >=5.3.0, <=5.3.39	6.1.13
org.springframework:spring-webflux	Maven	>=6.1.0, <6.1.13 \|\| >=6.0.0, <=6.0.23 \|\| >=5.3.0, <=5.3.39	6.1.13

Identifiers

GHSA-cx7f-g6mp-7hqm · CVE-2024-38816

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-22

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Spring Framework's spring-webmvc and spring-webflux packages are affected in versions 6.1.0 to before 6.1.13, 6.0.0 through 6.0.23, and 5.3.0 through 5.3.39. Applications that use RouterFunctions to serve static resources from a FileSystemResource location are vulnerable to path traversal, which lets a remote attacker craft HTTP requests to read any file the application process can access. Requests are blocked when Spring Security's HTTP Firewall is in use or when the application runs on Tomcat or Jetty. Upgrade to spring-webmvc or spring-webflux 6.1.13 or later.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.5	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CNA (vmware)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.21, the 97th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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