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Fencer Vulns
high 8.0

CVE-2020-5398 in the critical feed json

RFD Attack via "Content-Disposition" Header Sourced from Request Input by Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux Application

published 2020-01-16 6 y ago modified 2026-10-08 31 d ago also GHSA-8wx2-9q48-vm9r , EUVD-2020-0259

cvss
8.0
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
88.3%
EPSS 88.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.7%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Spring Framework, versions 5.2.x prior to 5.2.3, versions 5.1.x prior to 5.1.13, and versions 5.0.x prior to 5.0.16, an application is vulnerable to a reflected file download (RFD) attack when it sets a "Content-Disposition" header in the response where the filename attribute is derived from user supplied input.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework:spring-webmvc 5.0.16.RELEASE, 5.1.13.RELEASE, 5.2.3.RELEASE
  • maven org.springframework:spring-webflux 5.0.16.RELEASE, 5.1.13.RELEASE, 5.2.3.RELEASE
  • Spring Spring Framework v5.0.16.RELEASE, v5.1.13.RELEASE, v5.2.3.RELEASE

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-5398 updated cvss 8.0

springframework: RFD attack via Content-Disposition Header sourced from request input by Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux Application

  • Red Hat JBoss BRMS 5 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 springframework springframework Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5 springframework springframework
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7.8.0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:5568
  • Red Hat Storage 3 rhevm-dependencies Red Hat Virtualization 4 rhvm-dependencies
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
31 d ago

Exploit prediction

88.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 8.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.6 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework:spring-webmvc
>=5.2.0.RELEASE, <5.2.3.RELEASE
>=5.1.0.RELEASE, <5.1.13.RELEASE
>=5.0.0.RELEASE, <5.0.16.RELEASE
5.2.3.RELEASE
5.1.13.RELEASE
5.0.16.RELEASE
maven org.springframework:spring-webflux
>=5.2.0.RELEASE, <5.2.3.RELEASE
>=5.1.0.RELEASE, <5.1.13.RELEASE
>=5.0.0.RELEASE, <5.0.16.RELEASE
5.2.3.RELEASE
5.1.13.RELEASE
5.0.16.RELEASE

Affected products

  • Spring Spring Framework

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
  • CWE-494 Download of Code Without Integrity Check
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References

Sources

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