SB2018041822 - Denial of service in Spring Data Commons and Spring Data REST 



SB2018041822 - Denial of service in Spring Data Commons and Spring Data REST

Published: April 18, 2018 Updated: April 26, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2018041822
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1274)

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.