SB2018041822 - Denial of service in Spring Data Commons and Spring Data REST
Published: April 18, 2018 Updated: April 26, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018041822
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1274)
CWE-ID: CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
The 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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.