CVE-2019-12416 — we got reports for 2 injection attacks against the DeltaSpike windowhandler

we got reports for 2 injection attacks against the DeltaSpike windowhandler.js. This is only active if a developer selected the ClientSideWindowStrategy which is not the default.

01What is this vulnerability?

we got reports for 2 injection attacks against the DeltaSpike windowhandler.js. This is only active if a developer selected the ClientSideWindowStrategy which is not the default.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / Apache DeltaSpike	Apache DeltaSpike up to including 1.9.2

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2020-03-19T14:48:52.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T23:17:40.117Z

09References

• lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8f327712b2b07f867fde1e77cbafcf8cc6a3facaa6…
• lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r848d7d4c0bf637da55f01103eb8ba0fce344c295fd…