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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/org.springframework/spring-webmvc/CVE-2025-41242
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/org.springframework/spring-webmvc/CVE-2025-41242
Aliases CVE-2025-41242
GHSA-r936-gwx5-v52f
Summary Spring Framework MVC Applications Path Traversal Vulnerability 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:
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.springframework/spring-webmvc/CVE-2025-41242.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework
CVE-2025-41242 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-41242
GHSA-r936-gwx5-v52f https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r936-gwx5-v52f
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.springframework/spring-webmvc/CVE-2025-41242.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

adjacent_network

local

physical

low

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none

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none

required

unchanged

changed

high

low

none

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low

none

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none

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2025-08-18T11:20:32Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2025/41xxx/CVE-2025-41242.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2025-41242

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]