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🛡️ CVE-2025-41242 on Maven (Root.io) — spring-webmvc

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
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Description

CVE-2025-41242 in org.springframework:spring-webmvc - Patched by Root

Root has patched CVE-2025-41242 in the org.springframework:spring-webmvc package for Root:Maven. Multiple fixed versions available.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-41242 as tracked by Maven (Root.io), for the package spring-webmvc. The fix is available in version 6.1.1-root.io.4; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none. (rating taken from the base CVE record.)

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2025-41242 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2025-41242 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • io.root.org.springframework:spring-webmvc (fixed in 6.1.1-root.io.4)
  • org.springframework:spring-webmvc (fixed in 6.1.1-aikido.4)

Timeline and source

Published on 19 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

Other advisories for this package

io.root.org.springframework:spring-webmvc has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-22: Path Traversal) in other software:

CVE-2025-41242 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-08-19
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-19
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
io.root.org.springframework:spring-webmvc — 6.1.1-root.io.4
org.springframework:spring-webmvc — 6.1.1-aikido.4

References

N/A

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