CVE-2021-22118: Local Privilege Escalation within Spring Webflux Multipart Request Handling
Severity
Medium
Vendor
Spring by VMware
Description
In Spring Framework, versions 5.2.x prior to 5.2.15 and versions 5.3.x prior to 5.3.7, a WebFlux application is vulnerable to a privilege escalation: by (re)creating the temporary storage directory, a locally authenticated malicious user can read or modify files that have been uploaded to the WebFlux application, or overwrite arbitrary files with multipart request data.
Spring MVC applications are not affected by this vulnerability, nor are applications that do not handle multipart file requests.
Affected VMware Products and Versions
Severity is medium unless otherwise noted.
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Spring Framework
- 5.2.0 to 5.2.14
- 5.3.0 to 5.3.6
Mitigation
Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation. 5.3.x users should upgrade to 5.3.7. 5.2.x users should upgrade to 5.2.15. No other steps are necessary. Releases that have fixed this issue include:
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Spring Framework
- 5.3.7
- 5.2.15
Credit
This issue was identified and responsibly reported by Trung Pham from Viettel Cyber Security.
References
History
2021-05-25: Initial vulnerability report first published.