Description
Reactive web applications that use Spring HATEOAS to produce hypermedia-based responses might be exposed to malicious forwarded headers if they are not behind a trusted proxy that ensures correctness of such headers, or if they don't have anything else in place to handle (and possibly discard) forwarded headers either in WebFlux or at the level of the underlying HTTP server. For the application to be affected, it needs to satisfy the following requirements: * It needs to use the reactive web stack (Spring WebFlux) and Spring HATEOAS to create links in hypermedia-based responses. * The application infrastructure does not guard against clients submitting (X-)Forwarded… headers.
Scores
CVSS v3
5.3
EPSS
0.0038
EPSS Percentile
59.6%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-644
CWE-116
Status
published
Products (3)
org.springframework.hateoas/spring-hateoas
0 - 1.5.5Maven
vmware/spring_hateoas
2.1.0 (3 CPE variants)
vmware/spring_hateoas
< 1.5.5
Published
Jul 17, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026