Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-6521

Title: Gopivotal Grails Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-6521.

CWE Category CWE-352

Published Date Jan 23, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.82%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-6521: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Grails console (aka Grails Debug Console and Grails Web Console) 2.0.7, 1.5.10, and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of users for requests that execute arbitrary Groovy code via unspecified vectors.

Impacted Vendors

springsource 1

gopivotal 1

grails 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/11 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/03/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92267 https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console/issues/54 https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console/issues/55 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/11 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/02/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/03/9 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92267 https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console/issues/54 https://github.com/sheehan/grails-console/issues/55

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns