CVE-2014-3626

7.5 · HIGH

Published Mar 19, 2018 grails CWE-22 EPSS 1.68% (75th pctl) CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Overview

CVE-2014-3626 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting grails resources. It was published on March 19, 2018 and has a CVSS 3.0 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.0 base score of 7.5, rated HIGH. It can be exploited remotely over the network. No authentication or special privileges are required for exploitation.

Technical Description

The Grails Resource Plugin often has to exchange URIs for resources with other internal components. Those other components will decode any URI passed to them. To protect against directory traversal the Grails Resource Plugin did the following: normalized the URI, checked the normalized URI did not step outside the appropriate root directory (e.g. the web application root), decoded the URI and checked that this did not introduce additional /../ (and similar) sequences. A bug was introduced where the Grails Resource Plugin before 1.2.13 returned the decoded version of the URI rather than the normalized version of the URI after the directory traversal check. This exposed a double decoding vulnerability. To address this issue, the Grails Resource Plugin now repeatedly decodes the URI up to three times or until decoding no longer changes the URI. If the decode limit of 3 is exceeded the URI is rejected. A side-effect of this is that the Grails Resource Plugin is unable to serve a resource t

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from grails. Update resources to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions	Status
grails	resources	1.2.0	Affected

References

Ref pivotal.io/security/cve-2014-3626 Ref pivotal.io/security/cve-2014-3626

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2014-3626?

CVE-2014-3626 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting grails resources. It was published on March 19, 2018 and has a CVSS 3.0 base score of 7.5 (HIGH).

How severe is CVE-2014-3626?

This vulnerability has a CVSS 3.0 base score of 7.5, rated HIGH. It can be exploited remotely over the network. No authentication or special privileges are required for exploitation.

How do I fix or remediate CVE-2014-3626?

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