CVE-2025-41242 (Medium) detected in spring-webmvc-5.3.14.jar, spring-beans-5.3.14.jar

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CVE-2025-41242 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Libraries - spring-webmvc-5.3.14.jar, spring-beans-5.3.14.jar

spring-webmvc-5.3.14.jar

Spring Web MVC

Library home page: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework

Path to dependency file: /src/examples/JavaSpring/pom.xml

Path to vulnerable library: /home/wss-scanner/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-webmvc/5.3.14/spring-webmvc-5.3.14.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

• spring-boot-starter-web-2.6.2.jar (Root Library)
  • ❌ spring-webmvc-5.3.14.jar (Vulnerable Library)

spring-beans-5.3.14.jar

Spring Beans

Library home page: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework

Path to dependency file: /src/examples/JavaSpring/pom.xml

Path to vulnerable library: /home/wss-scanner/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-beans/5.3.14/spring-beans-5.3.14.jar

Dependency Hierarchy:

• spring-boot-starter-2.6.2.jar (Root Library)
  • spring-boot-2.6.2.jar
    • spring-context-5.3.14.jar
      • spring-aop-5.3.14.jar
        • ❌ spring-beans-5.3.14.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 642a29f4be078e5094d502da0a4f686426e9309b

Found in base branch: main

Vulnerability Details

Spring Framework MVC applications can be vulnerable to a “Path Traversal Vulnerability” when deployed on a non-compliant Servlet container.
An application can be vulnerable when all the following are true:

• the application is deployed as a WAR or with an embedded Servlet container
• the Servlet container does not reject suspicious sequences https://jakarta.ee/specifications/servlet/6.1/jakarta-servlet-spec-6.1.html#uri-path-canonicalization
• the application serves static resources https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/web/webmvc/mvc-config/static-resources.html#page-title  with Spring resource handling
  We have verified that applications deployed on Apache Tomcat or Eclipse Jetty are not vulnerable, as long as default security features are not disabled in the configuration. Because we cannot check exploits against all Servlet containers and configuration variants, we strongly recommend upgrading your application.

Publish Date: 2025-08-18

URL: CVE-2025-41242

CVSS 3 Score Details (5.9)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: High
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: High
  • Integrity Impact: None
  • Availability Impact: None

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Release Date: 2025-08-18

Fix Resolution: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework.git - v6.2.10,org.springframework:spring-beans:6.2.10

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