CVE-2018-1259

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2018-05-09
CWE:
CWE-611
Bugzilla:
1578902: CVE-2018-1259 spring-data-commons: XXE with Spring Data’s XMLBeam integration

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Spring Data Commons, versions 1.13 prior to 1.13.12 and 2.0 prior to 2.0.7, used in combination with XMLBeam 1.4.14 or earlier versions, contains a property binder vulnerability caused by improper restriction of XML external entity references as underlying library XMLBeam does not restrict external reference expansion. An unauthenticated remote malicious user can supply specially crafted request parameters against Spring Data's projection-based request payload binding to access arbitrary files on the system.

Find out more about CVE-2018-1259 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 7.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact Low

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes 1.0 RHSA-2018:1809 2018-06-07

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 spring-data-commons Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 spring-data-commons Affected
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 spring-data-commons Not affected

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