CVE-2016-4977

mediumpriority · attend · 73EPSS 0.792 · 100 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

3 exploits · PoC

Likely / severe?

79.2% (100th) EPSS

CVSS 6.5 · medium

Is it mine?

20 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

When processing authorization requests using the whitelabel views in Spring Security OAuth 2.0.0 to 2.0.9 and 1.0.0 to 1.0.5, the response_type parameter value was executed as Spring SpEL which enabled a malicious user to trigger remote code execution via the crafting of the value for response_type.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.5–8.8

v2.06.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 6.4

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-19USprimary

exploits (3)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

affected products (20)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Pivotal Spring Security OAuth≤ 1.0.0 to 1.0.5enisa_euvdEU
Pivotal Spring Security OAuth≤ 2.0.0 to 2.0.9enisa_euvdEU
pivotal spring security oauth= 1.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 1.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 1.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 1.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 1.0.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 1.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 2.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 2.0.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 2.0.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 2.0.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 2.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 2.0.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 2.0.7nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 2.0.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
pivotal spring security oauth= 2.0.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:pivotal:spring_security_oauth:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth21.0.0 → 1.0.5osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.security.oauth/spring-security-oauth2
Maven org.springframework.security.oauth:spring-security-oauth22.0.0 → 2.0.10osvUSpkg:maven/org.springframework.security.oauth/spring-security-oauth2

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-7q9c-h23x-65fqSpring Security OAuth vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) via specially crafted request using whitelabel views2018-10-18ghsa · osvUS
When processing authorization requests using the whitelabel views in Spring Security OAuth 2.0.0 to 2.0.9 and 1.0.0 to 1.0.5, the response_type parameter value was executed as Spring SpEL which enabled a malicious user to trigger remote code execution via the crafting of the value for response_type.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-05-25modified 2026-06-17

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references (19)

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