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Fencer Intel
medium 5.3

CVE-2018-9159 json

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects com.sparkjava:spark-core

published 2018-03-31 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-76qr-mmh8-cp8f , EUVD-2018-0533

cvss
5.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.4%
EPSS 4.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Spark before 2.7.2, a remote attacker can read unintended static files via various representations of absolute or relative pathnames, as demonstrated by file: URLs and directory traversal sequences. NOTE: this product is unrelated to Ignite Realtime Spark.

Patch / fix

  • maven com.sparkjava:spark-core 2.7.2
  • sparkjava spark 2.7.2
  • spark Manager Server 3.1 2.3-3.3.1
  • release-notes-susemanager Manager Server 3.1 3.1.8-5.38.1
  • release-notes-susemanager-proxy Manager Proxy 3.1 3.1.8-0.15.29.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:2689-1SUSE-RU-2018:2639-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-9159 updated cvss 5.3

spark: Absolute and relative pathnames allow for unintended static file disclosure

  • Red Hat Fuse 7 camel Red Hat JBoss Fuse Integration Service 2 spark-core spark-core
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Fuse Intergration Services 2.0 based on Fuse 6.3 R7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2405
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3 Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2020

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven com.sparkjava:spark-core
<2.7.2
2.7.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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