CVE-2016-4977

HighCVSS 8.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 8.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-19

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: May 25, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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