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CVE-2018-1273: VMware Tanzu Spring Data Commons Property Binder Vulnerability

CVE-2018-1273 is rated critical with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and affects VMware Tanzu Spring Data Commons, along with 2 other products in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication, without any user interaction. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available. CISA added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-03-25, which means exploitation in the wild has been observed.

Vulnerability description

Spring Data Commons, versions prior to 1.13 to 1.13.10, 2.0 to 2.0.5, and older unsupported versions, contain a property binder vulnerability caused by improper neutralization of special elements. An unauthenticated remote malicious user (or attacker) can supply specially crafted request parameters against Spring Data REST backed HTTP resources or using Spring Data's projection-based request payload binding hat can lead to a remote code execution attack.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v3.1 9.8: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network, with no need for local or physical access.
  • Attack complexity: Low. No special conditions; the attack can be repeated reliably.
  • Privileges required: None. No account or prior access is needed.
  • User interaction: None. No action from any user is needed.
  • Scope: Unchanged. Impact stays within the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High. Total loss of confidentiality; sensitive data can be fully disclosed.
  • Integrity impact: High. Total loss of integrity; data or system state can be fully modified.
  • Availability impact: High. Total loss of availability; the component can be shut down.

Underlying weakness

CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code

The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.

Affected products

  • Broadcom Spring Data Commons: up to and including 1.12.10; from 1.13.0 up to and including 1.13.10; from 2.0.0 up to and including 2.0.5
  • Pivotal Software Spring Data Rest: from 3.0.0 up to and including 3.0.5
  • VMware Spring Data Rest: up to and including 2.5.10; from 2.6.0 up to and including 2.6.10
  • Apache Ignite: from 1.0.1 up to and including 2.5.0; 1.0.0; 1.0.0 rc3
  • Oracle Financial Services Crime And Compliance Management Studio: 8.0.8.2.0; 8.0.8.3.0

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