High
Security advisory
Directory traversal vulnerability in Spark 2.5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the URI.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2016-9177
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:50 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Directory traversal vulnerability in Spark 2.5 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the URI.
osv:CVE-2016-9177
Complete source record
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