Fwd: [CVE-2016-4977] Apache Fineract remote code execution vulnerabilities fixed in v1.3.0

[Vishwas Babu <vishwasbabuaj () gmail com>]

Hello,

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---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Vishwas Babu (Apache) <vishwasbabu () apache org>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 at 23:25
Subject: [CVE-2016-4977] Apache Fineract remote code execution
vulnerabilities fixed in v1.3.0
To: <dev () fineract apache org>, <announce () apache org>
Cc: <extranewbugs () gmail com>, <security () fineract apache org>


Hello,

The Apache Fineract project would like to hereby disclose that our 1.3.0

release includes a fix for CVE-2016-4977 : A known vulnerability in spring

security upstream dependencies allowed malicious users to trigger remote code

execution. See https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4977 for details of

the upstream CVE.

We would like to thank Roberto (extranewbugs () gmail com) for reporting

this issue and the Apache Security team for their assistance.

Additional details at
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FINERACT/Apache+Fineract+Security+Report.

Regards,
Vishwas