CVE-2018-1273: VMware Tanzu Spring Data Commons Property Binder Vulnerability

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-03-25
EPSS: 97.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-04-11 · updated 2026-08-26
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Spring Data Commons, versions prior to 1.13 to 1.13.10, 2.0 to 2.0.5, and older unsupported versions, contain a property binder vulnerability caused by improper neutralization of special elements. An unauthenticated remote malicious user (or attacker) can supply specially crafted request parameters against Spring Data REST backed HTTP resources or using Spring Data's projection-based request payload binding hat can lead to a remote code execution attack.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache Ignite: from 1.0.1 through 2.5.0; 1.0.0, 1.0.0-rc3
Spring Data Commons: through 1.12.10; from 1.13.0 through 1.13.10; from 2.0.0 through 2.0.5
Oracle Financial Services Crime And Compliance Management Studio: 8.0.8.2.0, 8.0.8.3.0
Pivotal Software Spring Data Rest: from 3.0.0 through 3.0.5
Spring Data REST: through 2.5.10; from 2.6.0 through 2.6.10
Spring Framework: Versions prior to 1.13 to 1.13.10, 2.0 to 2.0.5, and older unsupported versions

References

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