CVE Alert: CVE-2025-41242

Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-41242

Spring Framework MVC applications can be vulnerable to a “Path Traversal Vulnerability” 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 https://jakarta.ee/specifications/servlet/6.1/jakarta-servlet-spec-6.1.html#uri-path-canonicalization * the application serves static resources https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/reference/web/webmvc/mvc-config/static-resources.html#page-title with Spring resource handling We have verified that applications deployed on Apache Tomcat or Eclipse Jetty are not vulnerable, as long as default security features are not disabled in the configuration. Because we cannot check exploits against all Servlet containers and configuration variants, we strongly recommend upgrading your application.

Affected Endpoints:

No affected endpoints listed.

Published Date:

8/18/2025, 9:15:28 AM

⚠️ CVSS Score:

Exploit Status:

Not Exploited

EPS Score: 0.00035 | Ranking EPS: 0.08395

References:

• http://spring.io/security/cve-2025-41242

Recommended Action:

No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.

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