CVE-2018-1274 High Severity Vulnerability detected by WhiteSource

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CVE-2018-1274 - High Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - spring-data-commons-1.13.1.RELEASE.jar

Global parent pom.xml to be used by Spring Data modules

path: /root/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.springframework.data/spring-data-commons/1.13.1.RELEASE/4e4257f2eb3f191613b4b000d43e8d0c3ff4457e/spring-data-commons-1.13.1.RELEASE.jar

Library home page: http://www.spring.io/spring-data/spring-data-commons

Dependency Hierarchy:

• spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb-1.5.2.RELEASE.jar (Root Library)
  • spring-data-mongodb-1.10.1.RELEASE.jar
    • ❌ spring-data-commons-1.13.1.RELEASE.jar (Vulnerable Library)

Vulnerability Details

Spring Data Commons, versions 1.13 to 1.13.10, 2.0 to 2.0.5, and older unsupported versions, contain a property path parser vulnerability caused by unlimited resource allocation. An unauthenticated remote malicious user (or attacker) can issue requests against Spring Data REST endpoints or endpoints using property path parsing which can cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption).

Publish Date: 2018-04-18

URL: CVE-2018-1274

CVSS 3 Score Details (7.5)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Network
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: None
  • User Interaction: None
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: None
  • Integrity Impact: None
  • Availability Impact: High

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1274

Release Date: 2018-04-18

Fix Resolution: 1.13.11.RELEASE,2.0.6.RELEASE

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