Under some situations, the Spring Framework 4.2.0 to 4.2.1, 4.0.0 to 4.1.7, 3.2.0 to 3.2.14 and older unsupported versions is vulnerable to a Reflected File Download (RFD) attack. The attack involves a malicious user crafting a URL with a batch script extension that results in the response being downloaded rather than rendered and also includes some input reflected in the response.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4774-1 advisory.

    Toshiaki Maki discovered that Spring Framework incorrectly handled certain XML files. A remote attacker     could exploit this with a crafted XML file to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2015-3192)

    Alvaro Muoz discovered that Spring Framework incorrectly handled certain URLs. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to cause a reflected file download. (CVE-2015-5211)

    It was discovered that Spring Framework did not properly sanitize path inputs. An attacker could possibly     use this issue to read arbitrary files, resulting in a directory traversal attack (CVE-2016-9878)

    It was discovered that Spring Framework incorrectly handled XML documents. An attacker could possibly use     this issue to generate an XML external entity attack, resulting in a denial of service, disclosure of     information or other unspecified impact. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM.

    (CVE-2014-0225)

    It was discovered that Spring Framework incorrectly handled certain URLs. A remote attacker could possibly     use this issue to read arbitrary files,

    resulting in a directory traversal attack. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 ESM. (CVE-2014-3625,     CVE-2014-3578)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Vulnerabilities have been identified in libspring-java, a modular Java/J2EE application framework.

CVE-2014-3578

A directory traversal vulnerability that allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a crafted URL.

CVE-2014-3625

A directory traversal vulnerability that allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via unspecified vectors, related to static resource handling.

CVE-2015-3192

Improper processing of inline DTD declarations when DTD is not entirely disabled, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and out-of-memory errors) via a crafted XML file.

CVE-2015-5211

Reflected File Download (RFD) attack vulnerability, which allows a malicious user to craft a URL with a batch script extension that results in the response being downloaded rather than rendered and also includes some input reflected in the response.

CVE-2016-9878

Improper path sanitization in ResourceServlet, which allows directory traversal attacks.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.6.RELEASE-17+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your libspring-java packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Security fix for CVE-2015-5211. Update to 3.2.15.RELEASE

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
183546	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM : Spring Framework vulnerabilities (USN-4774-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
126653	Debian DLA-1853-1 : libspring-java security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
89326	Fedora 21 : springframework-3.2.15-1.fc21 (2015-9295d75400)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
89264	Fedora 22 : springframework-3.2.15-1.fc22 (2015-693035254a)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
89133	Fedora 23 : springframework-3.2.15-1.fc23 (2015-065d9953e8)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

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CVE-2015-5211

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