SB2018052102 - Information disclosure in Pivotal Spring Data Commons
Published: May 21, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018052102
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Information disclosure
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) XXE attack (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1259)
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.The weakness exists due to improper restriction of XML external entity references. The underlying XMLBeam library does not restrict external reference expansion. A remote attacker can supply specially crafted request parameters and gain access to arbitrary files.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.