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High · 7.5 Public exploit CVE-2018-1259 EUVD-2018-0636GHSA-m929-7fr6-cvjg

Spring Data Commons, used in combination with XMLBeam, contains a property binder vulnerability caused by improper restriction of XML external entity references

Published May 11, 2018 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by dell

Vendor: Pivotal Product: Spring Data Commons Package: org.springframework.data:spring-data-commons Ecosystem: Maven

Description

Spring Data Commons, versions 1.13 prior to 1.13.12 and 2.0 prior to 2.0.7, used in combination with XMLBeam 1.4.14 or earlier versions, contains a property binder vulnerability caused by improper restriction of XML external entity references as underlying library XMLBeam does not restrict external reference expansion. An unauthenticated remote malicious user can supply specially crafted request parameters against Spring Data's projection-based request payload binding to access arbitrary files on the system.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Pivotal Spring Data Commons 1.13 prior to 1.13.12; 2.0 prior to 2.0.7 —

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Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Maven org.springframework.data:spring-data-commons >= 1.13.0, < 1.13.12 1.13.12 GHSA-m929-7fr6-cvjg
Maven org.springframework.data:spring-data-commons >= 2.0.0, < 2.0.7 2.0.7 GHSA-m929-7fr6-cvjg

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