Denial of service in Spring Data Commons and Spring Data REST

1) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

EUVDB-ID: #VU75519

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [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 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Exploit availability: No

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.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Pivotal Spring Data Commons: 1.13 - 2.0.6

Pivotal Spring Data REST: 2.6.0 - 3.0.5

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:pivotal_spring_data_commons:1.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:pivotal_spring_data_commons:1.13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:pivotal_spring_data_commons:1.13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:pivotal_spring_data_rest:2.6.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:pivotal:pivotal_spring_data_rest:3.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-1274
https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103769
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.