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TITLE:
Spring Framework Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA45942

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RELEASE DATE:
2011-09-09

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DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in the Spring Framework,
which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions and compromise a vulnerable system.

1) Various errors related to the deserialisation of objects can be
exploited to e.g. execute arbitrary commands or bypass authentication
mechanisms.

2) An error related to the evaluation of Expression Language (EL) in
MVC tags and containers supporting EL can be exploited to e.g.
disclose classpaths and working directories or session IDs by
injecting EL statements.

This vulnerabilities are reported in version 3.0.0 to 3.0.5.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.0.6

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
1) The vendor credits Wouter Coekaerts.
2) Stefano Di Paola, Minded Security and Arshan Dabirsiaghi, Aspect
Security

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.springsource.com/security/cve-2011-2894
http://www.springsource.com/security/cve-2011-2730

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