CVE-2016-4977observed exploitation

CVE-2016-4977: vulnerability in Pivotal Spring Security OAuth

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82Vexday Risk Score

Patch now. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck and has a working public exploit.

ssvc Actepss 79%
from disclosure to weapon998 days
Published on NVDMay 25
1st PoC+998d
VulnCheck+2638d
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.
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