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
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
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.