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RCE in PATCH requests in Spring Data REST

CRITICAL | SEPTEMBER 21, 2017 | CVE-2017-8046

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 Spring Products and Versions

Spring Data REST:

  • 3.0.0 - 3.0.0
  • 2.6.0 - 2.6.8

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.
Fix versionAvailability
3.0.1OSS
2.6.9OSS

No further mitigation steps are necessary.

Credit

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

References

History

  • 2017-09-21: Initial vulnerability report published.
  • 2018-03-06: Corrected affected and fixed versions

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