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CVE-2017-8046

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 74.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-01-04 · updated 2026-06-26
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Malicious PATCH requests submitted to servers using Spring Data REST versions prior to 2.6.9 (Ingalls SR9), versions prior to 3.0.1 (Kay SR1) and Spring Boot versions prior to 1.5.9, 2.0 M6 can use specially crafted JSON data to run arbitrary Java code.

Affected products

• Pivotal Software Spring Data Rest: 3.0.0, 3.0.0-m1, 3.0.0-m2, 3.0.0-m3, 3.0.0-m4
• Spring Boot: before 1.5.9; 2.0.0-milestone1, 2.0.0-milestone2, 2.0.0-milestone3, 2.0.0-milestone4, 2.0.0-milestone5 — fixed in 1.5.9
• Spring Data REST: before 2.6.9; 3.0.0-rc1, 3.0.0-rc2, 3.0.0-rc3 — fixed in 2.6.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Spring Boot 1.5.9; Spring Data REST 2.6.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100948
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2405
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-8046
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44289/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100948
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2405
• https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2017-8046
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44289/

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