diff --git a/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/ResourceServlet.java b/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/ResourceServlet.java
index 446c2bf1fc..d0a3ba7921 100644
--- a/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/ResourceServlet.java
+++ b/spring-webmvc/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/ResourceServlet.java
@@ -270,18 +270,18 @@ public class ResourceServlet extends HttpServletBean {
 		if (this.contentType != null) {
 			response.setContentType(this.contentType);
 		}
-
 		String[] resourceUrls = StringUtils.tokenizeToStringArray(resourceUrl, RESOURCE_URL_DELIMITERS);
 		for (String url : resourceUrls) {
+			String path = StringUtils.cleanPath(url);
 			// Check whether URL matches allowed resources
-			if (this.allowedResources != null && !this.pathMatcher.match(this.allowedResources, url)) {
-				throw new ServletException("Resource [" + url +
+			if (this.allowedResources != null && !this.pathMatcher.match(this.allowedResources, path)) {
+				throw new ServletException("Resource [" + path +
 						"] does not match allowed pattern [" + this.allowedResources + "]");
 			}
 			if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
-				logger.debug("Including resource [" + url + "]");
+				logger.debug("Including resource [" + path + "]");
 			}
-			RequestDispatcher rd = request.getRequestDispatcher(url);
+			RequestDispatcher rd = request.getRequestDispatcher(path);
 			rd.include(request, response);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/spring-webmvc/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/ResourceServletTests.java b/spring-webmvc/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/ResourceServletTests.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2ba08e26b6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-webmvc/src/test/java/org/springframework/web/servlet/ResourceServletTests.java
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2002-2016 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.springframework.web.servlet;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import javax.servlet.ServletException;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import org.springframework.mock.web.test.MockHttpServletRequest;
+import org.springframework.mock.web.test.MockHttpServletResponse;
+import org.springframework.mock.web.test.MockServletConfig;
+
+/**
+ * @author Rossen Stoyanchev
+ */
+public class ResourceServletTests {
+
+	@Test(expected = ServletException.class)
+	public void example1() throws Exception {
+		testInvalidResourceUrl("/resources/**", "/resources/../WEB-INF/web.xml");
+	}
+
+	@Test(expected = ServletException.class)
+	public void example2() throws Exception {
+		testInvalidResourceUrl("/resources/*", "/resources/..\\WEB-INF\\web.xml");
+	}
+
+	@Test(expected = ServletException.class)
+	public void example3() throws Exception {
+		testInvalidResourceUrl("/resources/*", "/resources/..\\Servlet2?param=111");
+	}
+
+	private void testInvalidResourceUrl(String allowedResources, String resourceParam)
+			throws ServletException, IOException {
+
+		ResourceServlet servlet = new ResourceServlet();
+		servlet.setAllowedResources(allowedResources);
+		servlet.init(new MockServletConfig());
+
+		MockHttpServletRequest request = new MockHttpServletRequest("GET", "/");
+		request.addParameter("resource", resourceParam);
+		MockHttpServletResponse response = new MockHttpServletResponse();
+
+		servlet.service(request, response);
+	}
+
+}