{"id":"CVE-2024-38816","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-38816","generatedAt":"2026-11-04T21:27:40.192Z","title":"Applications serving static resources through the functional web frameworks WebMvc.fn or WebFlux.fn are vulnerable to path traversal attacks.","description":"Applications serving static resources through the functional web frameworks WebMvc.fn or WebFlux.fn are vulnerable to path traversal attacks. An attacker can craft malicious HTTP requests and obtain any file on the file system that is also accessible to the process in which the Spring application is running.\n\nSpecifically, an application is vulnerable when both of the following are true:\n\n  *  the web application uses RouterFunctions to serve static resources\n  *  resource handling is explicitly configured with a FileSystemResource location\n\n\nHowever, malicious requests are blocked and rejected when any of the following is true:\n\n  *  the  Spring Security HTTP Firewall https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/servlet/exploits/firewall.html  is in use\n  *  the application runs on Tomcat or Jetty","published":"2024-09-13T06:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:41:06.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"security@vmware.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-22"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.21263,"percentile":0.97599,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[{"date":"2026-10-25","score":0.21263,"percentile":0.97577}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 21.3%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[{"kind":"epss","label":"EPSS jump","at":"2026-10-25T00:00:00.000Z","detail":{"to":0.21263,"from":0.14718,"percentile":0.97577},"summary":"EPSS moved from 14.7% to 21.3% probability of exploitation in the next thirty days."}],"references":[{"url":"https://spring.io/security/cve-2024-38816","source":"security@vmware.com"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241227-0001/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38816","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}