#VU75519 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Pivotal Spring Data Commons and Pivotal Spring Data REST - CVE-2018-1274
Published: April 26, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU75519
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1274
CWE-ID: CWE-770
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Pivotal Spring Data Commons
Pivotal Spring Data REST
Pivotal Spring Data Commons
Pivotal Spring Data REST
Software vendor:
Pivotal
Pivotal
Description
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 updates from vendor's website.