Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-0053

Title: Gopivotal Grails Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-0053.

CWE Category CWE-264
Published Date Apr 15, 2014
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.98%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-0053: The default configuration of the Resources plugin 1.0.0 before 1.2.6 for Pivotal Grails 2.0.0 before 2.3.6 does not properly restrict access to files in the WEB-INF directory, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request. NOTE: this identifier has been SPLIT due to different researchers and different vulnerability types. See CVE-2014-2857 for the META-INF variant and CVE-2014-2858 for the directory traversal.

Impacted Vendors

G
grails 1
S
springsource 1
G
gopivotal 2

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2014-02/0194.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2014-02/0267.html http://secunia.com/advisories/56841 http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2014-0053 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531281/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65678 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91270 https://twitter.com/Ramsharan065/status/434975409134792704 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2014-02/0194.html http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2014-02/0267.html http://secunia.com/advisories/56841 http://www.gopivotal.com/security/cve-2014-0053 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531281/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65678 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/91270 https://twitter.com/Ramsharan065/status/434975409134792704
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-0053 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.