CVE-2018-1274

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-04-18 · updated 2026-06-26
Weakness: CWE-770

Description

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).

Affected products

Spring Data Commons: before 1.13.11; from 2.0.0 before 2.0.6 — fixed in 1.13.11, 2.0.6
Pivotal Software Spring Data Rest: from 3.0 through 3.0.5
Spring Data REST: from 2.6 through 2.6.10
Spring Framework: from Versions 1.13 through 1.13.10, 2.0 to 2.0.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Spring Data Commons 1.13.11, 2.0.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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