CVE-2018-1259 Information

Description

Spring Data Commons versions 1.13 prior to 1.13.12 and 2.0 prior to 2.0.7 used in combination with XMLBeam 1.4.14 or earlier versions contains a property binder vulnerability caused by improper restriction of XML external entity references as underlying library XMLBeam does not restrict external reference expansion. An unauthenticated remote malicious user can supply specially crafted request parameters against Spring Data’s projection-based request payload binding to access arbitrary files on the system.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1809 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3768 https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2018-1259

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.5