VMware Tanzu · Spring Data Commons

CVE-2018-1273

VMware Tanzu Spring Data Commons Property Binder Vulnerability

Exploited in attacks Used by ransomware Critical 9.8 Attack chance: 97%

What it is

Spring Data Commons, versions prior to 1.13 to 1.13.10, 2.0 to 2.0.5, and older unsupported versions, contain a property binder vulnerability caused by improper neutralization of special elements. An unauthenticated remote malicious user (or attacker) can supply specially crafted request parameters against Spring Data REST backed HTTP resources or using Spring Data's projection-based request payload binding hat can lead to a remote code execution attack.

CISA: Spring Data Commons contains a property binder vulnerability which can allow an attacker to perform remote code execution.

What to do

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Deadline for US federal agencies: April 15, 2022

Added to the CISA list: March 25, 2022
Published: April 11, 2018
Severity: Critical 9.8 CVSS 3.1
Chance of attacks in the next 30 days (EPSS): 97% in the top 0.1% of all known vulnerabilities
Weakness: CWE-94
More details: NVD · CVE.org · CISA

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Sources: Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (CISA, public domain), CVE records (cve.org) and EPSS (FIRST). The chance of attacks is the EPSS estimate that someone will try to exploit the flaw in the next 30 days.