Security context
What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.
spring-projects/spring-boot
main @ e16c5d0
123
Fixes
0
CVEs
CRITICAL
Peak severity
40.0%
Coverage
Highlights
Auth Bypass: 67 prior fixes. Scrutinize any change in this area.
spring-boot-actuator: most-fixed (35 issues). Treat as high-risk during review.
50 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.
Recurring patterns
The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.
Auth Bypass: Inconsistent or incorrect path matching, particularly when handling custom servlet context paths, empty base paths, or specific HTTP methods, has repeatedly enabled clients to bypass Spring Security filter chains gating actuator endpoints. This exposes sensitive configuration and operational details.
Path Traversal: Several archive extraction tasks have been vulnerable to Zip Slip or path traversal because they performed simple string prefix validations rather than rigorous, canonicalized path boundary checks, allowing files to be written outside target directories.
Information Disclosure: Actuator endpoints (such as /env or /configprops) have frequently leaked sensitive system properties, Docker registry secrets, and database credentials due to incomplete sanitization patterns or incorrect evaluation of nested properties.