CVE-2016-4977 in pivotal spring security oauth
LogPulse has a published detection rule for this CVE: it raises a notable when someone tries to exploit it.
What the vulnerability is
When 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.
Affected software: pivotal spring security oauth
Scores
- CVSS: 8.8 (high)
- EPSS: 80.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- CISA KEV: Not listed
- Published: 2017-05-25
What LogPulse has for it
- Detection rule: Yes, published
- Agent check (vulnerable version): No
- Mitigation: No
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