CVE-2024-38819
Applications serving static resources through the functional web frameworks WebMvc.fn or WebFlux.fn are vulnerable to path traversal attacks.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 56.5%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS
- 56.46% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Source
- security@vmware.com
EPSS moved from 56.0% on 25 September 2026 to 56.5% on 3 November 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.