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Additional information exposure with Spring Data JPA example matcher

LOW | MAY 13, 2019 | CVE-2019-3802

Description

This affects Spring Data JPA in versions up to and including 2.1.6, 2.0.14 and 1.11.20. Using ExampleMatcher.StringMatcher.STARTING, ExampleMatcher.StringMatcher.ENDING or ExampleMatcher.StringMatcher.CONTAINING could return more results than anticipated when a maliciously crafted example value is supplied.

Affected Spring Products and Versions

Spring Data JPA:

  • 2.1.0.RELEASE - 2.1.7.RELEASE
  • 2.0.0.RELEASE - 2.0.14.RELEASE
  • 1.11.21.RELEASE and earlier

Mitigation

Users of affected versions should upgrade to the corresponding fixed version.
Fix versionAvailability
2.1.8.RELEASEOSS
2.1.8.RELEASEOSS
1.11.22.RELEASEOSS
  • There are no other mitigation steps necessary. Note, that with the current releases, the 2.0 branch of both Spring Data and Spring Boot is EOL and we highly recommend to upgrade

Credit

This issue was identified and responsibly reported by Thaveethu Vignesh

References

History

  • 2019-05-13: Initial vulnerability report published.

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