CVE-2020-5398

RFD Attack via "Content-Disposition" Header Sourced from Request Input by Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux Application

State: Published
Severity: 8.0 High
Published: Jan 16, 2020
Updated: Oct 8, 2026
Reserved: Jan 3, 2020

Description

In Spring Framework, versions 5.2.x prior to 5.2.3, versions 5.1.x prior to 5.1.13, and versions 5.0.x prior to 5.0.16, an application is vulnerable to a reflected file download (RFD) attack when it sets a "Content-Disposition" header in the response where the filename attribute is derived from user supplied input.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	8.0 High	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	pivotal

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Reflected

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Spring FrameworkSpring	5.0 to before v5.0.16.RELEASEAffected 5.1 to before v5.1.13.RELEASEAffected 5.2 to before v5.2.3.RELEASEAffected

References

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