Denial of service in Spring Data Commons and Spring Data REST
| Risk | Medium |
| Patch available | YES |
| Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
| CVE-ID | CVE-2018-1274 |
| CWE-ID | CWE-770 |
| Exploitation vector | Network |
| Public exploit | N/A |
| Vulnerable software Subscribe |
Pivotal Spring Data Commons Server applications / Frameworks for developing and running applications Pivotal Spring Data REST Server applications / Frameworks for developing and running applications |
| Vendor | Pivotal |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
1) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
EUVDB-ID: #VU75519
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1274
CWE-ID:
CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in the property path parser, caused by unlimited resource allocation. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the application and consume all available CPU and memory resources.
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Vulnerable software versionsPivotal Spring Data Commons: 1.13 - 2.0.6
Pivotal Spring Data REST: 2.6.0 - 3.0.5
External linkshttp://pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-1274
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103769
http://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.
