SB2026011308 - Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Library Support for Spring
Published: January 13, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 21 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22243)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when parsing URL with the UriComponentsBuilder component. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.
2) Resource management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20883)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Specifically, an application is vulnerable if all of the conditions are true:
- The application has Spring MVC auto-configuration enabled. This is the case by default if Spring MVC is on the classpath.
- The application makes use of Spring Boot's welcome page support, either static or templated.
- Your application is deployed behind a proxy which caches 404 responses.
3) Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38807)
The vulnerability allows a local user to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect signature verification when using spring-boot-loader and spring-boot-loader-classic for nested jar files. A local user can forge the signature to spoof identity of the code signer.
4) Missing authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22235)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The
vulnerability exists due to an error in EndpointRequest.to()
implementation. The function creates a matcher for null/** if the
actuator endpoint, for which the EndpointRequest has been created, is
disabled or not exposed. A remote non-authenticated attacker can gain
unauthorized access to the application.
5) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22950)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due improper input validation when processing SpEL expressions. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the affected application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
6) Code Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22965)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the affected application and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.
This vulnerability was dubbed "Spring4Shell".
7) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22970)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within the Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux applications. A remote user can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
8) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22971)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within the Spring application with a STOMP over WebSocket endpoint. A remote user can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
9) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20863)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote user can use a specially crafted SpEL expression and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
10) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-20861)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of SpEL expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
11) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22259)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when parsing URL with the UriComponentsBuilder component. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.
12) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-22262)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input when parsing URL with the UriComponentsBuilder component. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.
Note, this vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU87614 (CVE-2024-22259) and #VU86695 (CVE-2024-22243).
13) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38808)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when evaluating user-supplied SpEL expression. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
14) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38816)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences in applications serving static resources through the functional web frameworks WebMvc.fn or WebFlux.fn. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and read arbitrary files on the system.
Specifically, an application is vulnerable when both of the following are true:
- the web application uses
RouterFunctions</code> to serve static resources</li><li>resource handling is explicitly configured with a <code>FileSystemResourcelocation
15) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-22968)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to patterns for disallowedFields on a DataBinder are case sensitive, which means a field is not effectively protected unless it is listed
with both upper and lower case for the first character of the field,
including upper and lower case for the first character of all nested
fields within the property path. A remote attacker can bypass implemented security restrictions by passing case sensitive data to the application.
16) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38819)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences in applications that serve static resources through the functional web frameworks WebMvc.fn or WebFlux.fn. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and read arbitrary files on the system.
17) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-38820)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to String.toLowerCase() has some Locale dependent exceptions when handling case insensitive patterns in DataBinder. A remote attacker can bypass implemented security restrictions by passing specially crafted data to the application.
18) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-22233)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass implemented security restrictions.
The vulnerability exists due to String.toLowerCase() has some Locale dependent exceptions when handling case insensitive patterns in DataBinder. A remote attacker can bypass implemented security restrictions by passing specially crafted data to the application.
Note, the vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU98795 (CVE-2024-38820).
19) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-41242)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and read arbitrary files on the system.
Note, the vulnerability affects installations 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
- the application serves static resources with Spring resource handling
20) Protection Mechanism Failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-41248)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to the annotation detection mechanism does not correctly resolve annotations on methods within type hierarchies with a parameterized super type with unbounded generics. A remote attacker can gain access to sensitive information.
21) Protection Mechanism Failure (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-41249)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to the annotation detection mechanism may not correctly resolve annotations on methods within type hierarchies with a parameterized super type with unbounded generics. A remote attacker can gain access to sensitive information.
Remediation
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