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CVE-2020-5398

RFD Attack via "Content-Disposition" Header Sourced from Request Input by Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux Application

High8.0EPSS 88.3%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
pivotal

Description

In Spring Framework, versions 5.2.x prior to 5.2.3, versions 5.1.x prior to 5.1.13, and versions 5.0.x prior to 5.0.16, an application is vulnerable to a reflected file download (RFD) attack when it sets a "Content-Disposition" header in the response where the filename attribute is derived from user supplied input.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2020-5398, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
pivotalCNA (assigner)3.0High8.0CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Modified3.1High7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
88.3% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.0.

Weakness

Affected products

  • Spring · Spring Framework

    • affected 5.0 – < v5.0.16.RELEASE
    • affected 5.1 – < v5.1.13.RELEASE
    • affected 5.2 – < v5.2.3.RELEASE

Affected packages

From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.

References (44)

Sources

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