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medium 5.9

CVE-2025-41242 json

CVE-2025-41242: Path traversal vulnerability on non-compliant Servlet containers

published 2025-08-18 14 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-r936-gwx5-v52f , EUVD-2025-25122

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

Spring Framework MVC applications can be vulnerable to a “Path Traversal Vulnerability” when deployed on a non-compliant Servlet container.

An application can be vulnerable when all the following are true:

* the application is deployed as a WAR or with an embedded Servlet container * the Servlet container does not reject suspicious sequences https://jakarta.ee/specifications/servlet/6.1/jakarta-servlet-spec-6.1.html#uri-path-canonicalization * the application serves static resources https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/web/webmvc/mvc-config/static-resources.html#page-title  with Spring resource handling

We have verified that applications deployed on Apache Tomcat or Eclipse Jetty are not vulnerable, as long as default security features are not disabled in the configuration. Because we cannot check exploits against all Servlet containers and configuration variants, we strongly recommend upgrading your application.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.springframework:spring-webmvc 6.2.10
  • VMware Spring Framework 5.3.44, 6.1.22, 6.2.10

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-2025-41242 updated cvss 5.9

org.springframework/spring-webmvc: Spring Framework MVC path traversal vulnerability

  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 spring-webmvc Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 spring-webmvc Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 spring-webmvc Red Hat build of OptaPlanner 8 spring-webmvc Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 log4j, resteasy, log4j-jcl, log4j-web, log4j-slf4j, resteasy-javadoc Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 log4j, resteasy, log4j-jcl, log4j-slf4j, pki-resteasy-core, pki-resteasy-client, +2 more
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Fuse 7 spring-webmvc Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/pluginregistry-rhel9 Red Hat Process Automation 7 spring-webmvc Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 spring-webmvc
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Data Grid 8 spring-webmvc Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 spring-webmvc Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 spring-webmvc Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack spring-webmvc
    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
partial
Assessed
14 mo ago

Exploit prediction

2.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.springframework:spring-webmvc
>=6.2.0, <6.2.10
>=6.1.0, <=6.1.21
>=6.0.0, <=6.0.29
>=5.3.0, <=5.3.43
6.2.10

Affected products

  • VMware Spring Framework

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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