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Security Bypass The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package org.springframework.security:spring-security-core Open this link in a new tab

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    EPSS 0.12% (46th percentile)
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7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGSPRINGFRAMEWORKSECURITY-31612
  • published 28 Dec 2016
  • disclosed 28 Dec 2016
  • credit Shumpei Asahara, Yuji Ito
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Introduced: 28 Dec 2016

CVE-2016-9879 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-417 Open this link in a new tab

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

org.springframework.security:spring-security-core is a package that provides security services for the Spring IO Platform.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Security Bypass. It was found that Spring Security does not consider URL path parameters when processing security constraints. By adding a URL path parameter with an encoded / to a request an attacker may be able to bypass a security constraint.