SB2018052102 - Information disclosure in Pivotal Spring Data Commons



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

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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.