Advisory record · GHSA-r936-gwx5-v52f

Spring Framework MVC Applications Path Traversal Vulnerability

CVSS 5.9 MediumEPSS 0.023 · 83rd percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 18 Aug 2025, 09:31 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.springframework:spring-webmvcMaven>=6.2.0, <6.2.10 || >=6.1.0, <=6.1.21 || >=6.0.0, <=6.0.29 || >=5.3.0, <=5.3.436.2.10
Identifiers
GHSA-r936-gwx5-v52f · CVE-2025-41242
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-22
Published
18 Aug 2025
Updated
10 Sept 2026

Machine-written summary

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

Spring Framework's spring-webmvc package is affected in versions from 6.2.0 before 6.2.10, from 6.1.0 through 6.1.21, from 6.0.0 through 6.0.29, and from 5.3.0 through 5.3.43. The issue applies when the application is deployed as a WAR or with an embedded Servlet container that does not reject suspicious path sequences and serves static resources through Spring resource handling. The source gives few details on the exact attack steps. Upgrade to spring-webmvc 6.2.10 or a later fixed release.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
5.9 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CNA (vmware)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.023, the 83rd percentile, on 13 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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