SB2019050619 - Path traversal in Pivotal Spring Cloud Config

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.

1) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-3799)

CWE-ID: CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:A/U:Green

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.

The vulnerability exists because the spring-cloud-config-server module of the affected software allows applications to serve static resources from a file system. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and read, overwrite or delete arbitrary files on the system.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://github.com/mpgn/CVE-2019-3799
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-3799