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CVE-2017-8046: RCE in PATCH requests in Spring Data REST

Severity

Critical

Vendor

Spring by Pivotal

Description

Malicious PATCH requests submitted to servers using Spring Data REST backed HTTP resources can use specially crafted JSON data to run arbitrary Java code.

Affected VMware Products and Versions

Severity is critical unless otherwise noted.

• Spring Data REST versions prior to 2.6.9 (Ingalls SR9), 3.0.1 (Kay SR1)
• Spring Boot (if Spring Data REST module is used) versions prior to 1.5.9, 2.0 M6

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should apply the following mitigation:

• Releases that have fixed this issue include:
  • Spring Data REST 2.6.9 (Ingalls SR9, Oct. 27th, 2017)
  • Spring Data REST 3.0.1 (Kay SR1, Oct. 27th 2017)
  • Spring Boot 1.5.9 (Oct, 28th 2017)
  • Spring Boot 2.0 M6 (Nov. 6th 2017)

Credit

This vulnerability was responsibly reported by Man Yue Mo from Semmle and lgtm.com.

References

• https://jira.spring.io/browse/DATAREST-1127
• https://jira.spring.io/browse/DATAREST-1152

History

2017-09-21: Initial vulnerability report published

2018-03-06: Corrected affected and fixed versions