CVE-2016-4977

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4977
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4977.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4977
Aliases
Published
2017-05-25T17:29:00Z
Modified
2026-08-27T08:18:19Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

When processing authorization requests using the whitelabel views in Spring Security OAuth 2.0.0 to 2.0.9 and 1.0.0 to 1.0.5, the response_type parameter value was executed as Spring SpEL which enabled a malicious user to trigger remote code execution via the crafting of the value for response_type.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/spring-attic/spring-security-oauth

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/spring-attic/spring-security-oauth
Events
Introduced
2d6640db09f3c3b7612ec3bf08e7ff8ff2b90cc7
Last Affected
8c9e8ec70eb50542ed86fd4e1d110137e6e8e96b
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:1.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:2.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:2.0.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:2.0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:2.0.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:2.0.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.0.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.0.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "1.0.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.0.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "1.0.2"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.0.2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "1.0.3"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.0.3"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "1.0.4"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.0.4"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "1.0.5"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.0.5"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.0"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.1"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.1"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.2"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.2"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.3"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.3"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.4"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.4"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.5"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.5"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.6"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.6"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.7"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.7"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.8"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.8"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.9"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.9"
        }
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.0
1.0.1
1.0.2
1.0.3
1.0.4
1.0.5
2.*
2.0.0
2.0.1
2.0.2
2.0.3
2.0.4
2.0.5
2.0.6
2.0.7
2.0.8
2.0.9

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4977.json"