CVE-2018-1229: Stored XSS in file upload of Spring Batch Admin

Severity

Low

Vendor

Spring by Pivotal

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the file upload feature of Spring Batch Admin allows a remote attacker to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted request related to the file upload functionality.

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is low unless otherwise noted.

Spring Batch Admin all versions

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

Spring Batch Admin has reached end of life as of January 1, 2018. Spring Cloud Data Flow is the recommended replacement for managing and monitoring Spring Batch jobs going forward.

Credit

This vulnerability was responsibly reported by Wen Bin Kong.

References

https://docs.spring.io/spring-batch-admin
https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-batch-admin/blob/master/MIGRATION.md

History

2018-03-16: Initial vulnerability report published.