RULE(RULE ID:333979)

Rule General Information
Release Date: 2021-11-01
Rule Name: Spring boot Security OAuth Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2016-4977)
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CVE ID:
Rule Protection Details
Description: 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.
Impact: An attacker can execute arbitrary code via a successful exploit in the context of the vulnerable software.
Affected OS: Windows, Linux, Others
Reference: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/10/16/1
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/0841d849c23418c473ccb9183cbf41a317cb0476e44be48022ce3488@%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/37d7e820fc65a768de3e096e98382d5529a52a039f093e59357d0bc0@%3Cdev.fineract.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5e6dd946635bbcc9e1f2591599ad0fab54f2dc3714196af3b17893f2@%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
Solutions
The vendor has released upgrade patches to fix vulnerabilities, please visit:
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-security-oauth/commit/fff77d3fea477b566bcacfbfc95f85821a2bdc2d